Mochtyella

Mochtyella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MochtyellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 14 of 39 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 25 of 39 occurrencesSilurian453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence446–445 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 6 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 6 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 6 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 2 occurrences449.9 Mya426.7 Mya453.4 Mya422.1 Mya

39 occurrences of Mochtyella 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

39 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

8 formations

Kopanina — 49.94°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.17°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°ESaunja — 58.84°N, 24.98°EMoe — 58.84°N, 24.98°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EVaureal — 49.83°N, 64.40°WKorgessaare — 58.84°N, 24.98°EYangada — 67.13°N, 103.77°E

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

Mochtyella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mochtyella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Mochtyella, 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

4 references

Each of the 39 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 Mochtyella

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 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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What may have been alongside itMochtyellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan-Jaworowska 1961