Mesoplica

Mesoplica

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 21 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 4 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 4 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 1 occurrence367–366 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 2 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 2 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 2 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–356 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–353 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences353–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–349 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences349–347 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya358.86 Mya388.8 Mya345.9 Mya

23 occurrences of Mesoplica 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

23 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

6 formations

Pilton Shales — 51.08°N, 4.05°WHongguleleng — 46.75°N, 86.14°EHongguleleng — 44.50°N, 94.00°EGlen Park — 39.58°N, 91.07°WEnglish River — 41.00°N, 89.00°WFoum el Mejez — 32.67°N, 7.67°WDouar Nahilat — 32.66°N, 7.78°W

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The named rock units Mesoplica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesoplica and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mesoplica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Mesoplica, 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 23 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 content1

Picture of Mesoplica

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itLeioproductini through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.