Mesosolenia

Mesosolenia

Klaamann, Einar · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MultisoleniinaePBDB
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 least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 26 occurrencesSilurian — about 26 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 26 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–421 Mya — about 1 occurrence421–420 Mya — about 1 occurrence420–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences432.9 Mya422.7 Mya443.6 Mya419.1 Mya

26 occurrences of Mesosolenia 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

26 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

9 formations

Khandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.82°N, 106.25°ETrubchin Suite — 48.52°N, 26.32°ETrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°EKarakhem — 51.63°N, 90.30°EZvenigorod suite — 48.55°N, 26.28°EKantinovo — 52.00°N, 24.00°EZhouqu — 34.00°N, 103.00°ESkala — 49.02°N, 25.80°E

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

Mesosolenia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mesosolenia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mesosolenia, 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

9 references

Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Mesosolenia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Klaamann, Einar
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Mesosolenia 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 itMultisoleniinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mironova 1960