Mesofavosites alveolitoides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesofavositesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 5.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.8 Mya and 433.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Mesofavosites alveolitoides 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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.
Mesofavosites alveolitoides and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesofavosites alveolitoides and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Favosites gothlandicus4 sites
- Palaeofavosites jaaniensis4 sites
- Catenipora elegans2 sites
- Catenipora panga2 sites
- Catenipora vespertina2 sites
- Favosites abnormis2 sites
- Favosites favosiformis2 sites
- Mesofavosites obliquus2 sites
- Palaeofavosites septosus2 sites
- Actinodictyon suevicum1 site
- Aulopora assueta1 site
- Aulopora celsa1 site
- Catenipora maxima1 site
- Clathrodictyon delicatulum1 site
- Clathrodictyon variolare1 site
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum1 site
- Favosites favosus1 site
- Favosites kalevi1 site
- Halysites1 site
- Halysites regularis1 site
- Intexodictyon avitum1 site
- Intexodictyon olevi1 site
- Mesofavosites bonus1 site
- Palaeofavosites aliquantulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesofavosites alveolitoides, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesofavosites alveolitoides 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 Mesofavosites alveolitoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesofavosites alveolitoides 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 itMesofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1952