Mesofavosites validus
No picture of Mesofavosites validus 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 validus, 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 5.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.8 Mya and 433.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mesofavosites validus 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
1 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 validus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesofavosites validus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Actinodictyon suevicum1 site
- Aulopora assueta1 site
- Catenipora maxima1 site
- Catenipora vespertina1 site
- Clathrodictyon delicatulum1 site
- Clathrodictyon variolare1 site
- Dalejina phaseola1 site
- Ecclimadictyon fastigiatum1 site
- Favosites abnormis1 site
- Favosites favosiformis1 site
- Favosites gothlandicus1 site
- Favosites ingens1 site
- Halysites1 site
- Hesperorthis davidsoni1 site
- Mendacella1 site
- Mesofavosites obliquus1 site
- Palaeofavosites aliquantulus1 site
- Palaeofavosites jaaniensis1 site
- Palaeofavosites septosus1 site
- Pentamerus (Pentamerus) oblongus1 site
- Petridiostroma regulare1 site
- Placocoenites pellicula1 site
- Sinopora callosa1 site
- Stegerhynchus estonicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesofavosites validus, 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 1 occurrence 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 validus 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 validus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesofavosites validus 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. Klaamann 1964