Moeschia alata

No picture of Moeschia alata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Moeschia alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MoeschiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Postepithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 1.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 159 Mya and 157.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic159–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159.5 Mya157.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Moeschia alata on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

10 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

2 formations

Szarsomlyo Limestone — 45.87°N, 18.45°ETheniet Et-Temar — 33.67°N, 0.97°E

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The named rock units Moeschia alata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moeschia alata and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Moeschia alata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Moeschia alata, 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

Each of the 10 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 Moeschia alata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Moeschia alata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Moeschia alata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itMoeschia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rollet 1972)