Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
5 occurrences of Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
5 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
- Chernaya Bay Horizon Formation2
- Wadleigh Limestone Formation1
- Sinelnikov Formation1
- Wadleigh Formation1
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The named rock units Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Digonophyllum3 sites
- Acanthophyllum2 sites
- Australophyllum2 sites
- Paracyclas2 sites
- Xystriphyllum2 sites
- Zonophyllum2 sites
- Alveolites1 site
- Archiacoceras1 site
- Arctipeltis1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Biconostrophia1 site
- Borealis1 site
- Chaetetes1 site
- Chascothyris1 site
- Columnaria1 site
- Convoluticeras1 site
- Cortezorthis1 site
- Cyphaspis barrandei1 site
- Cyrtospirifer1 site
- Dechenella (Dechenella) bathurstensis1 site
- Dechenella verneuili1 site
- Dendrostella1 site
- Desquamatia1 site
- Favosites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum), 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
3 references- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada3
- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska1
- Devonian syringoporoid corals from southeastern Alaska1
Each of the 5 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 Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) 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 Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum (Arcophyllum) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMesophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Markov 1926