Mellopegma simesi
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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 million years on record.
The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 500.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 499 Mya.
4 occurrences of Mellopegma simesi 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
4 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
4 formations
- Murrawong Creek Formation1
- Tasman Formation1
- Gowers Formation1
- Henson Gletscher Formation · Brønlund Fjord Group1
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The named rock units Mellopegma simesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mellopegma simesi and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mellopegma simesi and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Dorispira accordionata2 sites
- Mellopegma georginense2 sites
- Pelagiella deltoides2 sites
- Acanthotheca junior1 site
- Ammagnostus1 site
- Anhuiconus agrenon1 site
- Anomalocalyx cawoodi1 site
- Arctohedra1 site
- Baltagnostus1 site
- Capitoconus borealis1 site
- Corystos thorntoniensis1 site
- Costipelagiella zazvorkai1 site
- Cotalagnostus1 site
- Dolicholeptus ansatus1 site
- Dolichometopus1 site
- Dorispira aliciae1 site
- Dorypyge aff. tenella1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Enigmaconus parvus1 site
- Eotebenna pontifex1 site
- Eurekapegma cooperi1 site
- Figurina1 site
- Goniagnostus spiniger1 site
- Helcionella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mellopegma simesi, 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- Mollusks and Stenothecoides from Cambrian Stage 4 (Ovatoryctocara granulata assemblage) in North Greenland (Laurentia)1
- New data on molluscs and their shell microstructures from the Middle Cambrian Gowers Formation, Australia1
- Middle Cambrian molluscs from the southern New England fold belt, New South Wales, Australia1
- New Zealand late Middle Cambrian molluscs and the origin of Rostroconchia and Bivalvia1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Mellopegma simesi 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 simesi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mellopegma simesi 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. (MacKinnon 1985)