Mercedescaudina langeri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MercedescaudinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Dendrochirotida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dendrochirotida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Dendrochirotida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Dendrochirotida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
11 occurrences of Mercedescaudina langeri on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mercedescaudina langeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mercedescaudina langeri and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mercedescaudina langeri and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Albertechinus devonicus7 sites
- Eocaudina septaforaminalis6 sites
- Furcaster cataphractus6 sites
- Lepidechinoides4 sites
- Achistrum multiperforatum3 sites
- Meekechinus3 sites
- Bracchiothuria ancora2 sites
- Concavocycloides givetiensis2 sites
- Linguacycloides trapes2 sites
- Linguaserra ligula2 sites
- Palaeocucumaria delicata2 sites
- Protocaudina dulcis2 sites
- Achistrum varicum1 site
- Ballistocucumis bimembris1 site
- Cardioserra minima1 site
- Chattaster loculus1 site
- Chimaerothyris1 site
- Devonothyonites accipitris1 site
- Devonothyonites avis1 site
- Erisserra romaneki1 site
- Neocyclocystoides neocyclocystoides1 site
- Ocellothuria binoculata1 site
- Palaeohemioedema cognata1 site
- Paradoxocycloides planus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mercedescaudina langeri, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mercedescaudina langeri 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 Mercedescaudina langeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mercedescaudina langeri 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 itMercedescaudina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boczarowski 2001