Mezounia
No picture of Mezounia 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 Mezounia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AegiromenidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
8 occurrences of Mezounia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
8 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Mezounia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mezounia and its relatives
SilurianWhere Mezounia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
159 taxa- Bracteoleptaena4 sites
- Decoroproetus4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Monograptus4 sites
- Cheirurus (Cheirurus) insignis3 sites
- Cyrtograptus3 sites
- Diacalymene3 sites
- Giraldibella3 sites
- Leonaspis3 sites
- Lingula3 sites
- Niorhynx3 sites
- Ravozetina3 sites
- Strophochonetes3 sites
- Trochurus speciosus3 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Atrypina2 sites
- Bleshidium2 sites
- Borkopleura2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bumastus2 sites
- Cardiola2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Coolinia pecten2 sites
- Craniops2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Mezounia, 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- Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)4
- Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia3
- Wenlock and Ludlow marine communities in Wales and the Welsh Borderland1
Each of the 8 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 Mezounia 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 Mezounia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mezounia 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 itAegiromenidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.