Mesopunctia minuta

No picture of Mesopunctia minuta 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 Mesopunctia minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesopunctiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPermian267–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence264.28 Mya259.857 Mya267.4 Mya253.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Mesopunctia minuta on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

19 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

Ingelara — 25.33°S, 148.30°EBlenheim — 20.82°S, 147.86°EBlenheim — 20.94°S, 148.13°EMalbina — 42.72°S, 147.12°EDrake Volcanics — 28.90°S, 152.40°EGilgurry Mudstone — 28.93°S, 152.32°EAbels Bay — 43.18°S, 147.24°E

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The named rock units Mesopunctia minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesopunctia minuta and its relatives

Permian

Where Mesopunctia minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mesopunctia minuta, 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

6 references

Each of the 19 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 Mesopunctia minuta 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 Mesopunctia minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesopunctia minuta 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 itMesopunctia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Campbell 1960)