Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum)
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) 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
- Horn Plateau Formation2
- Yingtang Formation1
- Celechovice Limestone Formation1
- Oege Formation · Oberhonsel Group1
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The named rock units Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
183 taxa- Disphyllum3 sites
- Favosites3 sites
- Stringophyllum3 sites
- Alveolites2 sites
- Australophyllum2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cyathophyllum2 sites
- Cystiphylloides2 sites
- Fenestrata2 sites
- Gypidula2 sites
- Pentamerella2 sites
- Schizophoria2 sites
- Spinatrypa2 sites
- Stromatopora2 sites
- Tabulophyllum2 sites
- Trupetostroma2 sites
- Actinocrinites1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alpenoceras1 site
- Alveolites suborbicularis1 site
- Ambocoelia umbonata1 site
- Ambothyris1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Anatrypa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum), 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- Dechenella burmeisteri emstae n. ssp. und verwandte Taxa im nördlichen Schelf des Rheia-Ozeans (Mitteldevon: Givetium; Trilobita: Proetida; Rhenoherzynikum)1
- Devonian sections in Guangxi from which pelecypods were collected1
- Middle Devonian brachiopods from Celechovice, Moravia1
- Sedimentology and ecology of the Horn Plateau Formation: A Middle Devonian coral reef, Northwest Territories, Canada1
- Facies and Faunal Relations at Edge of Early Mid-Devonian Carbonate Shelf South Nahanni River Area, NWT1
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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) 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 (Atelophyllum), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum (Atelophyllum) 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 itMesophyllum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wedekind 1925