Mimella vulgaris
No picture of Mimella vulgaris 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 Mimella vulgaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MimellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
44 occurrences of Mimella vulgaris 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
44 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Valcour Formation · Chazy Group16
- Day Point Formation · Chazy Group11
- Crown Point Formation · Chazy Group8
- Benbolt Formation6
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The named rock units Mimella vulgaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mimella vulgaris and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mimella vulgaris and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Leperditia canadensis26 sites
- Eurychilina latimarginata24 sites
- Multicostella platys23 sites
- Isotelus harrisi21 sites
- Stenopareia globosus19 sites
- Camerella varians18 sites
- Stictopora fenestrata16 sites
- Maclurites magnus14 sites
- Thaleops ovata14 sites
- Bucania sulcatina13 sites
- Dactylogonia incrassata13 sites
- Hibbertia valcourensis13 sites
- Rostricellula plena13 sites
- Sphenotreta acutirostris13 sites
- Onychoplecia longirostris12 sites
- Phylloporina incepta12 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata12 sites
- Raphistoma stamineum11 sites
- Rostricellula pristina10 sites
- Sphaerexochus parvus10 sites
- Holopea scrutator9 sites
- Lonchodomas chaziensis8 sites
- Macrocoelia champlainensis8 sites
- Ambonychiopsis curvata7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Mimella vulgaris, 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- The Chazy Formation and its fauna36
- Stratigraphy of the Lower Middle Ordovician of Tazewell County, Virginia6
- The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan2
Each of the 44 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Mimella vulgaris 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 Mimella vulgaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mimella vulgaris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMimella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1911)