Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma

Mesolobus lioderma (Dunbar & Condra, 1932), a relative of Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma — not Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma itself

Not Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma. This is Mesolobus lioderma (Dunbar & Condra, 1932), a relative — both are Chonetidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Chonetes mesolobaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.6 Mya and 306 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 40 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferous319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 3 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 2 occurrences319.1 Mya305.5 Mya

40 occurrences of Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

40 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

4 formations

Cabaniss — 37.48°N, 94.61°WCabaniss — 37.59°N, 89.70°WCabaniss — 38.64°N, 90.42°WCabaniss — 37.76°N, 94.46°WCabaniss — 38.04°N, 94.34°WCabaniss — 38.10°N, 94.36°WCabaniss — 38.28°N, 93.98°WCabaniss — 38.26°N, 93.93°WCabaniss — 38.47°N, 93.87°WCabaniss — 38.56°N, 93.57°WKrebs — 37.56°N, 94.54°WKrebs — 37.56°N, 94.56°WKrebs — 37.87°N, 94.39°WKrebs — 37.85°N, 94.52°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WCherokee Shale — 37.60°N, 94.68°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.23°N, 95.10°WCherokee Shale — 37.27°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.07°N, 94.82°WBurgner — 38.33°N, 92.60°W

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The named rock units Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

140 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma, 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

3 references

Each of the 40 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

Media content1

Picture of Mesolobus lioderma (Dunbar & Condra, 1932)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma 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 itChonetes mesoloba through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunbar and Condra 1932)