Mendipsia sp.

No picture of Mendipsia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mendipsia sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 10 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 10 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 2 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences346.7 Mya274.4 Mya361 Mya265 Mya

10 occurrences of Mendipsia sp. on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

10 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

Feltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WLimerick Limestone — 52.65°N, 8.95°WSafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°E

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The named rock units Mendipsia sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mendipsia sp. and its relatives

Permian

Where Mendipsia sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mendipsia sp., 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 Mendipsia sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mendipsia sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

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

No 3D scan of Mendipsia sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.