Mellopegma chelata

No picture of Mellopegma chelata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mellopegma chelata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MellopegmaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenothecidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida

Time the record covers

At least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 506.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrian515–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya506.5 Mya515.8 Mya504 Mya

6 occurrences of Mellopegma chelata on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

6 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Emigrant — 37.80°N, 117.60°WEmigrant — 37.71°N, 117.45°WHenson Gletscher — 82.30°N, 37.05°W

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The named rock units Mellopegma chelata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mellopegma chelata and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Mellopegma chelata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mellopegma chelata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Mellopegma chelata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mellopegma chelata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mellopegma chelata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMellopegma through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Skovsted 2006)