Meschedea permica
No picture of Meschedea permica 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 Meschedea permica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PluristratoentactiniaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Meschedea permica on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Meschedea permica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Meschedea permica and its relatives
PermianWhere Meschedea permica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Latentifistula4 sites
- Quadricaulis4 sites
- Stigmosphaerostylus itsukaichiensis4 sites
- Copicyntra3 sites
- Entactinosphaera3 sites
- Foremanhelena triangula3 sites
- Hegleria mammilla3 sites
- Paracopicyntra akikawaensis3 sites
- Albaillella2 sites
- Albaillella cavitata2 sites
- Cauletella manica2 sites
- Entactinosphaera crassispinosa2 sites
- Follicucullus2 sites
- Follicucullus charveti2 sites
- Follicucullus porrectus2 sites
- Follicucullus ventricosus2 sites
- Gustefana2 sites
- Hegleria2 sites
- Ishigaum2 sites
- Ishigaum trifustis2 sites
- Kashiwara magna2 sites
- Latentifistula similicutis2 sites
- Paroertlispongus fontainei2 sites
- Pseudotormentus kamigoriensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Meschedea permica, 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- Late Permian radiolarians and sponge spicules from the Tongtianyan section, Liuzhou, Gungxi, China2
- Permian radiolarians from the so-called Gufeng Formation of the Laibin-Liuzhou area, Guangxi, China1
- Lopingian (Upper Permian) radiolarian biostratigraphy of south China1
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 Meschedea permica 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 Meschedea permica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Meschedea permica 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 itPluristratoentactinia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sashida and Tonishi 1985