Mnestia

Mnestia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScaphandridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Philinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Philinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Philinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 52 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 73 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 10 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya33.9 Mya62.4 Mya22.3 Mya

73 occurrences of Mnestia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

73 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

20 formations

Reklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WFalun de Morigny — 48.45°N, 2.20°EFalun de Jeurs — 48.47°N, 2.17°EFalun d'Ormoy — 48.40°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.43°N, 2.15°ESable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine — 48.50°N, 2.25°EBruxellian — 51.17°N, 3.33°ECrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 31.40°N, 93.70°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WBorgloon — 50.89°N, 5.64°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.34°EWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 30.18°N, 97.47°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WFalun d'Auvers-Saint-Georges — 47.40°N, 4.45°EConglomerat de Pierrefitte — 48.50°N, 2.25°EAalter — 51.08°N, 3.45°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WSeguin — 30.18°N, 97.47°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WYegua — 30.63°N, 96.51°W

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

Mnestia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mnestia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

999 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Mnestia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

10 references

Each of the 73 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 content1

Picture of Mnestia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mnestia 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Adams and A 1854)