Mespilocystites lemenni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MespilocystitesPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Coronata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Coronata
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Coronata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Coronata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461 Mya and 450.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.5 Mya449.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Mespilocystites lemenni on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

3 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

2 formations

Fombuena — 41.15°N, 1.20°WBronchales — 40.28°N, 1.32°W

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

Mespilocystites lemenni and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mespilocystites lemenni and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mespilocystites lemenni, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Mespilocystites lemenni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mespilocystites lemenni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gutiérrez-Marco et al. 1996