Mendacella

Mendacella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhipidomellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 41 of 285 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 243 of 285 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 285 occurrencesDevonian460–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences455–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 11 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 46 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 123 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 51 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 12 occurrences435–433 Mya — about 12 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 5 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 7 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449.5 Mya393.47 Mya460 Mya387 Mya

285 occurrences of Mendacella on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

285 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

50 formations

Vaureal — 49.82°N, 64.35°WVaureal — 49.81°N, 64.43°WVaureal — 49.77°N, 63.64°WVaureal — 49.91°N, 64.24°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.20°WVaureal — 49.63°N, 63.78°WVaureal — 49.73°N, 63.83°WVaureal — 49.42°N, 62.25°WBeechhill Cove — 45.62°N, 61.97°WÕhne — 58.25°N, 22.49°EÕhne — 58.39°N, 24.50°EÕhne — 58.28°N, 24.09°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 25.57°EÕhne — 58.14°N, 25.37°EÕhne — 58.63°N, 25.64°EÕhne — 58.68°N, 26.09°EÕhne — 58.54°N, 24.82°EÕhne — 58.53°N, 24.59°EÕhne — 58.42°N, 22.50°EÕhne — 58.36°N, 23.86°EÕhne — 58.66°N, 25.75°EEllis Bay — 49.42°N, 62.25°WEllis Bay — 49.50°N, 62.53°WEllis Bay — 49.31°N, 61.86°WEllis Bay — 49.72°N, 63.83°WEllis Bay — 49.38°N, 62.08°WEllis Bay — 49.81°N, 64.43°WEllis Bay — 49.82°N, 64.35°WEllis Bay — 49.45°N, 62.30°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESolvik — 59.82°N, 10.46°ECrychan — 52.12°N, 3.55°WTrefawr — 52.12°N, 3.55°WGun River — 49.28°N, 62.15°WGun River — 49.24°N, 62.19°WGun River — 49.23°N, 62.47°WGun River — 49.20°N, 61.75°WGun River — 49.28°N, 62.08°WGun River — 49.24°N, 61.78°WVarbola — 58.87°N, 23.04°EVarbola — 58.80°N, 22.76°EVarbola — 58.67°N, 25.12°EVarbola — 58.79°N, 25.58°EVarbola — 58.69°N, 25.63°EVarbola — 58.71°N, 23.76°EMotol — 49.95°N, 12.93°EMotol — 49.95°N, 14.22°EMotol — 50.08°N, 14.47°EMotol — 49.77°N, 13.25°EPurple Shale — 52.58°N, 2.98°WBronydd — 52.12°N, 3.55°WPentamerus — 52.58°N, 2.98°WÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°EKhaastyrka — 67.35°N, 104.04°EKhaastyrka — 67.32°N, 103.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°EPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EAnji — 28.71°N, 118.35°EAnji — 29.50°N, 118.94°EMerrimack — 49.50°N, 63.00°WMerrimack — 49.28°N, 62.04°WMerrimack — 49.62°N, 63.43°WManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WManitoulin — 45.97°N, 81.93°WCabano — 47.71°N, 68.77°WWeir — 48.27°N, 65.08°WWeir — 48.32°N, 65.03°WClemville — 48.18°N, 64.97°WClemville — 47.83°N, 65.50°WWaldron Shale — 39.00°N, 86.00°WDamery Beds — 51.88°N, 2.23°W

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The named rock units Mendacella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 111 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mendacella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mendacella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

778 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 270 sites for Mendacella, and this reads 240 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

48 references

Each of the 285 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 Mendacella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1930