Mesopunctia extensa

No picture of Mesopunctia extensa 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 Mesopunctia extensa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesopunctiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290.1 Mya274.4 Mya294.1 Mya266.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Mesopunctia extensa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

3 formations

Cattle Creek — 23.95°S, 148.21°ECattle Creek — 25.21°S, 148.78°ECattle Creek — 21.45°S, 148.05°EStanleigh — 23.95°S, 148.21°EWasp Head — 35.67°S, 150.30°E

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The named rock units Mesopunctia extensa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesopunctia extensa and its relatives

Permian

Where Mesopunctia extensa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mesopunctia extensa, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Mesopunctia extensa 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 Mesopunctia extensa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesopunctia extensa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itMesopunctia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campbell 1961)