Mesembrioxylon

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocarpaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 178 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 25 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 25 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 25 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 25 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–209 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences201.4 Mya23.04 Mya242 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Mesembrioxylon 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

25 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

8 formations

Rajmahal — 24.54°N, 87.57°EMorrison — 39.24°N, 109.00°WMorrison — 44.63°N, 107.81°WCedar Mountain — 39.07°N, 110.99°WCerro Bororó — 43.63°S, 67.72°WRajahmundry — 17.02°N, 81.65°EHeiberg — 77.50°N, 95.00°WCoon Hollow — 45.60°N, 116.50°WDeccan Intertrappean — 17.04°N, 81.59°E

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The named rock units Mesembrioxylon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesembrioxylon and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Mesembrioxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Mesembrioxylon, 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 25 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 Mesembrioxylon 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 Mesembrioxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesembrioxylon was found in Sketchfab.

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 itPodocarpaceae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1919