Mesofavosites dualis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesofavositesPBDB
- 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 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 432.9 Mya.
17 occurrences of Mesofavosites dualis 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
17 occurrences- Ordovician18%
- Silurian82%
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
7 formations
- Tamsalu Formation5
- Baraniy Formation2
- Moyerokan Formation2
- Khaastyrka Formation2
- Hilliste Formation1
- Ärina Formation1
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The named rock units Mesofavosites dualis 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.
Mesofavosites dualis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mesofavosites dualis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
264 taxa- Paleofavosites6 sites
- Stenopareia6 sites
- Alispira5 sites
- Baltisphaeridium5 sites
- Distomodus kentuckyensis5 sites
- Fardenia5 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus5 sites
- Hesperorthis5 sites
- Multisolenia tortuosa5 sites
- Oulodus5 sites
- Palaeofavosites schmidti5 sites
- Panderodus unicostatus5 sites
- Stegerhynchus5 sites
- Trachysphaeridium5 sites
- Armenoceras4 sites
- Cerasina antiquata4 sites
- Clathrodictyon boreale4 sites
- Clorilamnulella undata4 sites
- Dentiferocrinus dentiferus4 sites
- Ensipora4 sites
- Exochognathus4 sites
- Hormotoma insignis4 sites
- Leiofusa4 sites
- Leiosphaeridia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Mesofavosites dualis, 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- Late Ordovician and early Silurian Favositida of Estonia9
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)5
- The platyceratacean gastropod Cyclonema (Cyclonema) hiiumaa Teichert, 1928 from the Llandovery (Silurian) of Estonia1
- Khayznikova, 19891
- Ordovik i silur Yuzhnogo Verkhoyanya (biostratigrafiya i paleontologiya) [The Ordovician and Silurian of the southern Verkhoyansk Range (biostratigraphy and paleontology)]1
Each of the 17 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.
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No picture of Mesofavosites dualis 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 Mesofavosites dualis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesofavosites dualis 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 itMesofavosites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1951