Mesofavosites fleximurinus

Mesofavosites fleximurinus

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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 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.8 Mya to 438.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 17 occurrencesSilurian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesSilurian443–443 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–441 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440.8 Mya438.6 Mya443.6 Mya432.4 Mya

17 occurrences of Mesofavosites fleximurinus 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

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

Kuranakh — 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°EHilliste — 58.88°N, 23.02°EAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EBelaya — 51.63°N, 90.30°E

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The named rock units Mesofavosites fleximurinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesofavosites fleximurinus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mesofavosites fleximurinus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mesofavosites fleximurinus, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mesofavosites fleximurinus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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