Mesofavosites fortis

No picture of Mesofavosites fortis 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 fortis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 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.

Ordovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya438.3 Mya

2 occurrences of Mesofavosites fortis 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

2 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

1 formation

Tamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°E

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The named rock units Mesofavosites fortis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesofavosites fortis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mesofavosites fortis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesofavosites fortis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 reference

Each of the 2 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 fortis 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 fortis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesofavosites fortis 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 itMesofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klaamann 1964