Mellopegma georginense
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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 514.5 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 497 Mya.
16 occurrences of Mellopegma georginense 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
16 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
8 formations
- Gowers Formation4
- Henson Gletscher Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group4
- Browns Pond Formation2
- Dengying Formation2
- Beetle Creek Formation1
- Anse Maranda Formation1
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The named rock units Mellopegma georginense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mellopegma georginense and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mellopegma georginense and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
177 taxa- Protowenella flemingi4 sites
- Bactrotheca emmonsi3 sites
- Chancelloria3 sites
- Conotheca australiensis3 sites
- Discinella micans3 sites
- Hyolithellus micans3 sites
- Hyolithes americanus3 sites
- Insolitotheca communis3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Pelagiella deltoides3 sites
- Pelagiella primaeva3 sites
- Yochelcionella greenlandica3 sites
- Acanthotheca junior2 sites
- Archaeocyatha2 sites
- Asperconella gloriae2 sites
- Corystos thorntoniensis2 sites
- Davidonia rostrata2 sites
- Davidonia taconica2 sites
- Ehmaniella2 sites
- Elliptocephala asaphoides2 sites
- Figurina2 sites
- Houlongdongella elevata2 sites
- Itagnostus interstrictus2 sites
- Kelanella altaica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Mellopegma georginense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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
9 references- Mollusks and Stenothecoides from Cambrian Stage 4 (Ovatoryctocara granulata assemblage) in North Greenland (Laurentia)3
- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia3
- Latest Early Cambrian small shelly fossils, trilobites and Hatch Hill dysaerobic interval on the Québec contental slope3
- Brachiopods and associated skeletal taxa from the early Cambrian of southeastern Shaanxi, South China2
- Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) molluscs and mollusc-like microfossils from North Greenland (Laurentia).1
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)1
- A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies1
- Queensland Middle Cambrian Bradoriida (Crustacea): new taxa, palaeobiogeography and biological affinities1
- Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution1
Each of the 16 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 georginense 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 georginense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mellopegma georginense 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. Runnegar and Jell 1976