Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SigmesaliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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.
Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Callianassa seefriedi2 sites
- Clinuropsis togoensis2 sites
- Conocyathus togoensis2 sites
- Costacallista adabionensis2 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) togoensis2 sites
- Macrocallista gruneri2 sites
- Rimella subhumerosa2 sites
- Strepsidura kerstingi2 sites
- Togocyamus seefriedi2 sites
- Venericardia koerti2 sites
- Volutilithes (Neoathleta) gruneri2 sites
- Acera togoensis1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Aetomylaeus striatus1 site
- Agaronia togoensis1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Ampullospira (Euspirocrommium) kouriatchyi1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Bullinella (Cylichnina) togoensis1 site
- Calamagras1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cardium zechi1 site
- Cerithium (Bittium) wanneri1 site
- Collonia grandis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti, 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
2 references- La faune Éocène du Togo1
- Die eocänen Invertebraten-Fauna des Kalksteins in Togo im Zusammenhange mit anderen Tertiärablagerungen Afrikas vergleichend betrachtet1
Each of the 2 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 Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti 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 Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesalia (Sigmesalia) koerti 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.
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What may have been alongside itSigmesalia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oppenheim 1915)