Mendacella udauberis
No picture of Mendacella udauberis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mendacella udauberis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MendacellaPBDB
- 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 most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mendacella udauberis 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Mendacella udauberis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mendacella udauberis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mendacella udauberis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Becscia scissura1 site
- Biparetis paucirugosus1 site
- Brachyprion (Brachyprion)1 site
- Brachyprion (Eomegastrophia)1 site
- Brachyprion leda1 site
- Cerasina1 site
- Coolinia pecten1 site
- Desmidodictyon exoticum1 site
- Ecclimadictyon nikitini1 site
- Ecclimadictyon sarvense1 site
- Eospirigerina1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Fenestrirostra glacialis1 site
- Heliolitida1 site
- Hesperorthis1 site
- Isorthis (Ovalella) natiscotekia1 site
- Leptaena quadrilatera1 site
- Meristina lara1 site
- Platytrochalos peninversus1 site
- Rhynchotrema fringilla1 site
- Saukrodictya1 site
- Stricklandia1 site
- Stromatoperoida <rare domal>1 site
- Strophomena philomela1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mendacella udauberis, 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
3 references- Early Silurian (Llandovery) orthide brachiopods from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada: the O/S extinction recovery fauna2
- Origin and evolution of the early Silurian (Rhuddanian) virgianid pentameride brachiopods - the extinction recovery fauna from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada1
- Llandovery (Early Silurian) orthide brachiopod associations from Anticosti Island, eastern Canada1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Mendacella udauberis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mendacella udauberis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mendacella udauberis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMendacella through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Li and Copper 2006