Mesocoelia gregaria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesocoeliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 2.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 425 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
2 occurrences of Mesocoelia gregaria 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
2 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
- Fiddlers Green Formation · Bertie Group1
- Lockport Formation1
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The named rock units Mesocoelia gregaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesocoelia gregaria and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesocoelia gregaria and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Eukloedenella2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Acutiramus cummingsi1 site
- Acutiramus macrophthalmus1 site
- Ascograptus1 site
- Aulocystis1 site
- Bertiella obesa1 site
- Brachyopterus1 site
- Buffalopterus1 site
- Bunaia1 site
- Calithamnopsis silurica1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Carcinosoma1 site
- Ceratiocaris1 site
- Ceratopora1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Cornellites1 site
- Cyathophyllum1 site
- Dawsonoceras1 site
- Delthyris1 site
- Dizygopleura1 site
- Dolichopterus1 site
- Dolichopterus herkimerensis1 site
- Dolichopterus jewetti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesocoelia gregaria, 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- Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology1
- Stratigraphy of Upper Silurian Cayugan Evaporites1
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 Mesocoelia gregaria was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesocoelia gregaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMesocoelia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ruedemann 1916)