Mesalia (Mesalia)

No picture of Mesalia (Mesalia) 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 Mesalia (Mesalia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesaliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mesalia
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Mesalia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Mesalia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 79 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 1 occurrence200–197 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199.5 Mya119.57 Mya203 Mya111 Mya

3 occurrences of Mesalia (Mesalia) on record, most of them in the Early 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

3 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

Sedrina — 45.00°N, 9.00°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°W

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

Mesalia (Mesalia) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Mesalia (Mesalia) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesalia (Mesalia), 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

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Mesalia (Mesalia) 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 Mesalia (Mesalia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itMesalia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1842