Mesoblastus

No picture of Mesoblastus 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 Mesoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GranatocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastoidea
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Blastoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Blastoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Blastoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 368.5 Mya to 353.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–357 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368.5 Mya353.7 Mya372.7 Mya346.2 Mya

6 occurrences of Mesoblastus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 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

5 formations

McCraney Limestone — 39.76°N, 91.26°WMcCraney Limestone — 42.68°N, 93.33°WLouisiana Limestone — 39.65°N, 91.73°WCalcaire de Premier — 50.60°N, 3.38°ERongxian — 25.33°N, 110.26°EPilton — 51.08°N, 4.12°W

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The named rock units Mesoblastus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesoblastus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mesoblastus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mesoblastus, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content0

No picture of Mesoblastus 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 Mesoblastus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesoblastus 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 itGranatocrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Etheridge and Carpenter 1886