Mystrophora

No picture of Mystrophora 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 Mystrophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MystrophoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 12 occurrencesDevonian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesDevonian421–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 1 occurrence412–410 Mya — about 1 occurrence410–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences391–389 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences389–387 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410.62 Mya372.15 Mya421 Mya367 Mya

12 occurrences of Mystrophora on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

12 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

7 formations

Garra — 32.58°S, 148.95°ERoad River and /or Delorme — 64.00°N, 133.00°WProngs Creek — 65.40°N, 134.12°WBrilon Massenkalk — 51.45°N, 8.62°ENehden — 51.43°N, 8.63°ETrois-Fontaines — 50.25°N, 5.42°ESrbsko — 49.92°N, 14.07°E

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The named rock units Mystrophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mystrophora and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mystrophora and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mystrophora, 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

10 references

Each of the 12 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 content0

No picture of Mystrophora 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 Mystrophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mystrophora 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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What may have been alongside itMystrophoridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.