Mesopholidostrophia nitens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesopholidostrophiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mesopholidostrophia nitens 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mesopholidostrophia nitens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesopholidostrophia nitens and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesopholidostrophia nitens and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Leptostrophia2 sites
- Plagiorhyncha2 sites
- Salopina conservatrix2 sites
- Visbyella2 sites
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Eocoelia curtisi1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Grammysia1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Modiolopsis1 site
- Nautiloidea1 site
- Nuculites1 site
- Paracraniops1 site
- Protochonetes1 site
- Rhynchospirina1 site
- Tentaculites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesopholidostrophia nitens, 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
2 references- The relationship between sedimentary facies and faunal associations in the Llandovery siliclastic Ross Brook Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia2
- A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland1
Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesopholidostrophia nitens 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 Mesopholidostrophia nitens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesopholidostrophia nitens 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 itMesopholidostrophia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1950)