Mellopegma indecora
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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 4.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 506.5 Mya.
9 occurrences of Mellopegma indecora 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
9 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mellopegma indecora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mellopegma indecora and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mellopegma indecora and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Bemella jacutica7 sites
- Spinulitheca billingsi7 sites
- Aldanella attleborensis6 sites
- Allatheca corrugata5 sites
- Camenella5 sites
- Camenella garbowskae5 sites
- Dictyocyathus5 sites
- Exilitheca5 sites
- Hyolithellus tenuis5 sites
- Igorella monstrosa5 sites
- Lapworthella5 sites
- Latouchella5 sites
- Torellella lentiformis5 sites
- Archaeolynthus4 sites
- Cambrocyathellus4 sites
- Camenella admiranda4 sites
- Camenella kozlowskii4 sites
- Coscinocyathus4 sites
- Hyolithellus grandis4 sites
- Okulitchicyathus4 sites
- Ajacicyathus3 sites
- Anabarites3 sites
- Batcatocyathus tunicatus3 sites
- Burithes distortus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mellopegma indecora, 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
4 references- Yarusnoye rasuchleneniye nizhnego kembriya Sibiri, Atlas Okamenelostey, Glava Klass Gastropoda. Lower Cambrian stage subdivision of the Siberia, Atlas of Fossils, Chapter Gastropoda3
- Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]3
- The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England2
- Primordial metazoan-calcimicrobial reefs: Tommotian (Early Cambrian) of the Siberian Platform1
Each of the 9 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mellopegma indecora 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 indecora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mellopegma indecora 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.
Keep going
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. (Rozanov et al. 1969)