Mesofavosites obliquus

Mesofavosites obliquus

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 6.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 433.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 13 occurrencesSilurian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433.5 Mya426.7 Mya443.6 Mya422.2 Mya

13 occurrences of Mesofavosites obliquus 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

13 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

7 formations

Khandyg — 62.20°N, 138.15°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EKekexiongkuduke — 46.75°N, 86.50°EChokusin — 47.00°N, 93.00°EAktash — 51.58°N, 89.67°EBelaya — 51.63°N, 90.30°EKuranakh — 62.93°N, 138.10°ERumba — 58.84°N, 24.04°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Mesofavosites obliquus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesofavosites obliquus and its relatives

Silurian

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

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mesofavosites obliquus, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 obliquus

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.

Keep going

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