Meniscoessus major

No picture of Meniscoessus major was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meniscoessus major itself, so it was not used. 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 Meniscoessus major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MeniscoessusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84.1 Mya71.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Meniscoessus major on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

17 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

3 formations

Judith River — 48.92°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.68°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.14°N, 110.85°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.07°N, 110.72°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°W

Loading coastlines…

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

Meniscoessus major and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Meniscoessus major and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

124 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Meniscoessus major, 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

5 references

Each of the 17 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 Meniscoessus major was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Meniscoessus major itself, so it was not used.

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 Meniscoessus major, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meniscoessus major 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMeniscoessus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Russell 1936)