Medusinites

No picture of Medusinites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Medusinites itself, so it was not used. 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 Medusinites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProblematicaPBDB
Diet
osmotrophPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At most 462 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1000 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 11 occurrences1009–993 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences993–977 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences977–961 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences961–945 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences945–929 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences929–913 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences913–897 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences897–881 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences881–865 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences865–849 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences849–833 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences833–817 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences817–801 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences801–785 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences785–769 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences769–753 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences753–737 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences737–721 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences721–705 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences705–689 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences689–673 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences673–657 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences657–641 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences641–626 Mya — about 1 occurrence626–610 Mya — about 2 occurrences610–594 Mya — about 2 occurrences594–578 Mya — about 2 occurrences578–562 Mya — about 2 occurrences562–546 Mya — about 2 occurrences546–530 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1009 Mya530 Mya

11 occurrences of Medusinites on record. 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

11 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

7 formations

Sheepbed — 64.67°N, 132.00°WSiltstone Unit 1 — 65.98°N, 134.20°WContra Fogo Sandstone — 4.00°S, 40.67°WStappogiedde — 70.90°N, 28.67°ESiltstone Unit 2 — 65.98°N, 134.20°WKauriyala — 29.38°N, 79.43°ERawnsley Quartzite — 30.85°S, 138.13°E

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The named rock units Medusinites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Medusinites, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Medusinites was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Medusinites itself, so it was not used.

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 Medusinites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Medusinites 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itProblematica through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sprigg 1949