Mesiteia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrectolobiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 9 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174.7 Mya56 Mya187 Mya45 Mya

9 occurrences of Mesiteia 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

9 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

Hannut — 50.71°N, 5.00°EMons-en-Pévèle Sand — 50.81°N, 4.33°EHeers — 50.10°N, 5.00°E

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The named rock units Mesiteia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesiteia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesiteia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

350 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mesiteia, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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

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

No 3D scan of Mesiteia 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorjanovic-Kramberger 1885