Minodentalium herculeum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MinodentaliumPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Dentaliida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Dentaliida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Dentaliida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Scaphopoda

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 42 of 42 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 42 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 8 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 8 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya274.9 Mya251.4 Mya

42 occurrences of Minodentalium herculeum 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

42 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

3 formations

Chhidru — 32.55°N, 71.78°EChhidru — 32.32°N, 71.18°EChhidru — 32.48°N, 72.20°EChhidru — 32.40°N, 72.15°EChhidru — 32.50°N, 72.00°EChhidru — 32.52°N, 72.11°EChhidru — 32.24°N, 71.15°EChhidru — 32.42°N, 72.12°EChhidru — 32.47°N, 71.95°EChhidru — 32.72°N, 71.75°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.97°EWargal — 32.47°N, 71.95°EGungri — 32.04°N, 78.32°E

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The named rock units Minodentalium herculeum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Minodentalium herculeum and its relatives

Permian

Where Minodentalium herculeum and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

300 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Minodentalium herculeum, 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 42 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 Minodentalium herculeum 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 Minodentalium herculeum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Minodentalium herculeum 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 itMinodentalium through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1863)