Meseumolpites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChrysomelidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 245.19 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic247–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244.4 Mya154.8 Mya247 Mya147 Mya

2 occurrences of Meseumolpites on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

2 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

Röt — 50.13°N, 9.90°EKarabastau — 42.95°N, 69.92°E

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

Meseumolpites and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Meseumolpites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Meseumolpites, 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 2 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Meseumolpites 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 itChrysomelidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ponomarenko 1962