Mesolobus

Mesolobus is an extinct genus of brachiopod belonging to the order Productida and family Rugosochonetidae.

No picture of Mesolobus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Mesolobus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CapillomesolobinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.6 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 43 of 47 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 47 occurrencesPermian320–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 1 occurrence316–314 Mya — about 1 occurrence314–312 Mya — about 7 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 11 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 11 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 9 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences312.8 Mya264.28 Mya320 Mya259 Mya

47 occurrences of Mesolobus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

47 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

15 formations

Krebs — 37.56°N, 94.54°WKrebs — 37.56°N, 94.56°WKrebs — 37.87°N, 94.39°WKrebs — 37.85°N, 94.52°WKrebs — 37.79°N, 91.53°WAltamont — 40.70°N, 90.01°WAltamont — 41.68°N, 94.50°WAltamont — 40.17°N, 92.64°WAltamont — 37.49°N, 95.17°WAltamont — 36.83°N, 95.58°WAltamont — 35.09°N, 96.36°WPawnee — 40.61°N, 90.03°WPawnee — 40.60°N, 92.72°WPawnee — 37.79°N, 94.79°WPawnee — 37.10°N, 95.28°WLost Branch — 40.73°N, 92.87°WLost Branch — 38.25°N, 94.69°WLost Branch — 35.94°N, 96.00°WLost Branch — 35.12°N, 96.43°WFort Scott Limestone — 40.82°N, 89.78°WFort Scott Limestone — 37.84°N, 94.71°WFort Scott Limestone — 36.42°N, 95.64°WWinchell — 31.50°N, 98.58°WLengwu — 29.92°N, 119.54°EVerdigris — 40.84°N, 90.21°WVerdigris — 37.11°N, 95.08°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 41.94°N, 107.36°WFlechado — 36.41°N, 105.57°WHepler — 37.19°N, 95.42°WBurgner — 38.33°N, 92.60°WBird Spring — 36.73°N, 114.77°WCopacabana — 16.08°S, 69.11°WMagdalena — 31.95°N, 106.60°W

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The named rock units Mesolobus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesolobus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mesolobus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Mesolobus, 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

11 references

Each of the 47 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.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mesolobus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Mesolobus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesolobus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCapillomesolobinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Condra 1932