Sestropoma mexicanum
No picture of Sestropoma mexicanum 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 Sestropoma mexicanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SestropomaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyttoniidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lyttoniidina
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Sestropoma mexicanum 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Sestropoma mexicanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sestropoma mexicanum and its relatives
PermianWhere Sestropoma mexicanum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Amblysiphonella guadalupensis1 site
- Cyclacantharia kingorum1 site
- Guadalupia zitteliana1 site
- Hercosestria cribrosa1 site
- Lemonea cylindrica1 site
- Sestropoma cribriferum1 site
- Teguliferina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Sestropoma mexicanum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Richthofenid brachiopods (Productida) and microfacies analysis of the Las Delicias Formation, middle Permian from Coahuila, Mexico: paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical considerations4
- Permian Brachiopods of West Texas, III1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sestropoma mexicanum 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 Sestropoma mexicanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sestropoma mexicanum 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 itSestropoma through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1975