Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
10 occurrences of Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
10 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Digonophyllum2 sites
- Ormistonia tesca2 sites
- Aayemenaytcheia paragranulata1 site
- Alveolites1 site
- Ancyropyge1 site
- Animalia1 site
- Astycoryphe1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) franklini1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) maclareni1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) paramaclareni1 site
- Dechenella perscheii1 site
- Dechenella planimarginata1 site
- Deltadechenella bathurstensis1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Harpes ormistoni1 site
- Hexagonaria1 site
- Humeia retusa1 site
- Kettneraspis elliptica1 site
- Lekanophyllum1 site
- Leonaspis1 site
- Mesophyllum (Zonodigonophyllum)1 site
- Otarion1 site
- Otarion (Otarion) balanops1 site
- Schizoproetoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum), 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- Rzhonsnitskaya, 19687
- Lower and Middle Devonian trilobites of the Canadian arctic islands2
- Tong-Dzuy et al., 19881
Each of the 10 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) 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 Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum (Dialytophyllum) 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 itMesophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Amanshauser 1925)