Mesiteia emiliae
No picture of Mesiteia emiliae 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 emiliae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesiteiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Time the record covers
At least 37 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
2 occurrences of Mesiteia emiliae 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Eocene50%
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.
Mesiteia emiliae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mesiteia emiliae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
279 taxa- "Gentonia" sp.1 site
- "Maffeia" sp.1 site
- Abdobalistum thyrsus1 site
- Abisaadia hakelensis1 site
- Abromasta microdon1 site
- Acanthonemus subaureus1 site
- Acanthopygaeus agassizi1 site
- Acanthuroides massalongoi1 site
- Acropoma lepidotum1 site
- Aeoliscoides longirostris1 site
- Aipichthys minor1 site
- Aipichthys velifer1 site
- Akromystax tilmachiton1 site
- Alopiopsis plejodon1 site
- Amphistium paradoxum1 site
- Anguillavus quadripinnis1 site
- Anguilloides branchiostegalis1 site
- Anotophysa1 site
- Apogonidae1 site
- Apogoniscus pauciradiatus1 site
- Archaephippus asper1 site
- Aspesiganus margaritae1 site
- Aspesiperca ruffoi1 site
- Atherina macrocephala1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesiteia emiliae, 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- The Pesciara-Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates1
- Les sélaciens du Crétacé supérieur du Liban. I: requins1
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
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No picture of Mesiteia emiliae 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 emiliae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesiteia emiliae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMesiteia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gorjanovic-Kramberger 1886