Mimosphinctes

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MimosphinctinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Agoniatitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 18 of 18 occurrencesDevonian411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences409–409 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences406–406 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–404 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences401–401 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences400–400 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411.1 Mya393 Mya

18 occurrences of Mimosphinctes 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

18 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

8 formations

Daleje — 50.00°N, 14.30°EDaleje — 50.04°N, 14.40°EDaleje — 49.94°N, 14.19°EHunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EMagian — 39.37°N, 67.58°EZlichov — 50.05°N, 14.40°EZlichov — 49.97°N, 14.28°EDaleje Shale — 50.04°N, 14.39°ENandan — 24.53°N, 115.58°EArauz — 42.97°N, 0.87°Wmiddle Kaub — 49.89°N, 7.47°E

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The named rock units Mimosphinctes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mimosphinctes and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mimosphinctes and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Mimosphinctes, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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 Mimosphinctes 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 Mimosphinctes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mimosphinctes 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 itMimosphinctinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichenberg 1931