Mesochorista

Mesochorista

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 90 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 182.9 Mya.

Permian — about 45 of 60 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 60 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 60 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 3 of 60 occurrencesEarly Jurassic292–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 13 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–251 Mya — about 14 occurrences244–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–237 Mya — about 6 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–199 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences199–196 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 1 occurrence274.4 Mya184.2 Mya292 Mya181 Mya

60 occurrences of Mesochorista on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

60 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

16 formations

Kazankovo-Markinskaya — 53.92°N, 87.25°ECroudace Bay — 33.02°S, 151.67°ECroudace Bay — 32.98°S, 151.65°EMadygen — 40.05°N, 70.21°EMadygen — 40.03°N, 70.25°EGramoteinskaya — 54.21°N, 86.90°EAmanak — 51.88°N, 54.84°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.55°N, 43.67°EIva-Gora Beds — 65.59°N, 42.57°EMitina — 53.55°N, 87.25°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EYinping — 31.50°N, 117.79°EBlackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°ETologoi — 47.50°N, 85.20°ETersinskaya — 53.45°N, 87.31°EChebalsinskaya — 53.79°N, 87.25°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°EMount Crosby — 27.55°S, 152.78°E

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The named rock units Mesochorista has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesochorista and its relatives

Permian

Where Mesochorista and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,579 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Mesochorista, 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

22 references

Each of the 60 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Mesochorista

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesochorista 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 itMesochoristini through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1916