Mendacella circularis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MendacellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 438.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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29 occurrences of Mendacella circularis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

29 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

3 formations

Õhne — 58.25°N, 22.49°EÕhne — 58.39°N, 24.50°EÕhne — 58.28°N, 24.09°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 25.57°EÕhne — 58.14°N, 25.37°EÕhne — 58.63°N, 25.64°EÕhne — 58.68°N, 26.09°EÕhne — 58.54°N, 24.82°EÕhne — 58.53°N, 24.59°EÕhne — 58.42°N, 22.50°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 23.86°EÕhne — 58.66°N, 25.75°EVarbola — 58.87°N, 23.04°EVarbola — 58.80°N, 22.76°EVarbola — 58.67°N, 25.12°EVarbola — 58.79°N, 25.58°EVarbola — 58.69°N, 25.63°EVarbola — 58.71°N, 23.76°ERaikküla — 58.94°N, 25.98°E

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The named rock units Mendacella circularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mendacella circularis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mendacella circularis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Mendacella circularis, 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

2 references

Each of the 29 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

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No picture of Mendacella circularis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rubel 2011