Mesalia vetusta

No picture of Mesalia vetusta 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 vetusta, 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 most 23 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 49 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 49 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56.5 Mya33.4 Mya

49 occurrences of Mesalia vetusta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

49 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

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WWhite Bluff — 34.42°N, 92.12°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°W

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

Mesalia vetusta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mesalia vetusta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

707 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Mesalia vetusta, 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

7 references

Each of the 49 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 content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Mesalia vetusta 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 vetusta, 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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)