Mesofavosites

Mesofavosites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PaleofavositinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 22 of 182 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 157 of 182 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 182 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 182 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 9 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 13 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 47 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 30 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 26 occurrences433–429 Mya — about 15 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 16 occurrences426–422 Mya — about 19 occurrences422–419 Mya — about 4 occurrences419–415 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences415–412 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya419.62 Mya460 Mya357 Mya

182 occurrences of Mesofavosites 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

182 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

46 formations

Kuranakh — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKuranakh — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKuranakh — 62.85°N, 138.15°ETamsalu — 58.91°N, 23.47°ETamsalu — 58.87°N, 22.97°ETamsalu — 58.84°N, 23.06°ETamsalu — 59.17°N, 26.13°ETamsalu — 58.99°N, 26.35°EKhandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EBaraniy — 63.40°N, 136.68°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EKekexiongkuduke — 46.78°N, 85.72°EKekexiongkuduke — 46.75°N, 86.50°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EBaiyun’an — 30.22°N, 106.75°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°EBelaya — 51.63°N, 90.30°EÄrina — 59.18°N, 26.20°EJaani — 58.51°N, 22.00°EAgidyl — 67.35°N, 104.04°EMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EKhaastyrka — 67.33°N, 104.85°EKhaastyrka — 67.34°N, 103.88°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°EKonovka Suite — 48.53°N, 26.67°EZvenigorod suite — 48.55°N, 26.28°ETrubchin Suite — 48.00°N, 26.00°ERusilov — 52.00°N, 24.00°EFranopol' — 52.00°N, 24.00°EBaiYunShan — 42.00°N, 101.00°EHuDuKeDaBan — 44.00°N, 81.00°EBateaobao — 42.00°N, 110.00°E

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The named rock units Mesofavosites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 56 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesofavosites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mesofavosites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

745 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Mesofavosites, 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

30 references

Each of the 182 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. 18 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Mesofavosites

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itPaleofavositinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1951