Mochtyella cristata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MochtyellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Polychaeta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Polychaeta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Polychaeta
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
7 occurrences of Mochtyella cristata 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician57%
- Silurian43%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Mochtyella cristata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mochtyella cristata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mochtyella cristata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Belonechitina4 sites
- Conochitina4 sites
- Lagenochitina4 sites
- Oenonites4 sites
- Pistoprion4 sites
- Rhytiprion4 sites
- Tetraprion4 sites
- Alispira3 sites
- Anabaria3 sites
- Armenoceras3 sites
- Atraktoprion3 sites
- Baltisphaeridium3 sites
- Bazaricrinus parvulus3 sites
- Bustrowicrinus bilobatus3 sites
- Catazone cingulata3 sites
- Comasphaeridium3 sites
- Cyathochitina3 sites
- Cymatiosphaera3 sites
- Dalejina3 sites
- Desmochitina3 sites
- Eoclimadictyon magnum3 sites
- Eohowellella3 sites
- Fardenia3 sites
- Favosites gothlandicus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mochtyella cristata, 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
2 references- Hulterstad brachiopods and associated faunas in the Vormsi Stage (Upper Ordovician, Katian) of the Lelle core, Central Estonia4
- Oporniih razrez reki Moiero silura Sibirskoi platformih -The Silurian composit section of the Moiero River (Sibirian platform)3
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Mochtyella cristata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mochtyella cristata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mochtyella cristata 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 itMochtyella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kielan-Jaworowska 1961