Mitoclema

Mitoclema

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
CrownoporidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 6 of 8 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 8 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 1 occurrence456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464.3 Mya426.7 Mya470 Mya419 Mya

8 occurrences of Mitoclema on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

8 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

5 formations

Pierce Limestone — 35.50°N, 86.50°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WRägavere — 59.35°N, 26.36°EVasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°EProsser — 44.50°N, 92.90°W

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The named rock units Mitoclema has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitoclema and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mitoclema and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mitoclema, 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

4 references

Each of the 8 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 Mitoclema

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mitoclema 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 itCrownoporidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich 1882