Thedusia mesocostata
No picture of Thedusia mesocostata 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 Thedusia mesocostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThedusiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Thedusia mesocostata 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
13 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 Thedusia mesocostata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thedusia mesocostata and its relatives
PermianWhere Thedusia mesocostata and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
453 taxa- Meekella calathica12 sites
- Acosarina mesoplatys11 sites
- Rhamnaria tenuispinosa11 sites
- Derbyia cincinnata10 sites
- Dyoros (Dyoros) transversus10 sites
- Megousia auriculata10 sites
- Neospirifer bakeri bakeri10 sites
- Derbyia laqueata9 sites
- Echinauris9 sites
- Echinauris lappacea9 sites
- Paucispinifera sulcata9 sites
- Rhynchopora hebetata9 sites
- Waagenoconcha convexa9 sites
- Composita crassa8 sites
- Edriosteges multispinosus8 sites
- Eocamptonectes papillatus8 sites
- Hustedia consuta8 sites
- Texarina wordensis8 sites
- Cyclacantharia transitoria7 sites
- Derbyia7 sites
- Derbyia complicata7 sites
- Dielasma7 sites
- Hustedia7 sites
- Hustedia connorsi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Thedusia mesocostata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 13 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 Thedusia mesocostata 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 Thedusia mesocostata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Thedusia mesocostata 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 itThedusia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1976