Mesofavosites secundus
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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 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 433.5 Mya and 431.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mesofavosites secundus 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
3 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Mesofavosites secundus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesofavosites secundus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesofavosites secundus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Atrypa3 sites
- Rhynchotreta gracilis3 sites
- Subalveolites sokolovi3 sites
- Syringolites kunthianus3 sites
- Angopora tenuicula2 sites
- Eospirifer radiatus2 sites
- Favosites forbesi2 sites
- Halysites senior2 sites
- Hemitoechia undvaensis2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Mesofavosites imbellis2 sites
- Plectatrypa (Plectatrypa) imbricata2 sites
- Stegerhynchus estonicus2 sites
- Whitfieldella2 sites
- Catenipora vespertina1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Cyrtia1 site
- Dalejina hybrida1 site
- Dalejina phaseola1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Eodictyonella capewellii1 site
- Favosites serratus1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Hesperorthis davidsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesofavosites secundus, 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 3 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.
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No picture of Mesofavosites secundus 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 secundus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesofavosites secundus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 1961