Mesochrysopa zitteli
No picture of Mesochrysopa zitteli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mesochrysopa zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesochrysopaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesochrysopa zitteli 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
2 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mesochrysopa zitteli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesochrysopa zitteli and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Mesochrysopa zitteli and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Aeschnogomphus buchi2 sites
- Cymatophlebia longialata2 sites
- Eocicada microcephala2 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica2 sites
- Gigantotermes excelsus2 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia2 sites
- Mesuropetala muensteri2 sites
- Nymphites braueri2 sites
- Osmylites excelsa2 sites
- Prolystra lithographica2 sites
- Protolindenia antiqua2 sites
- Stenophlebia amphitrite2 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei2 sites
- Urogomphus giganteus2 sites
- Actea sphinx1 site
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius1 site
- Amarodes pseudozabrus1 site
- Andrephlebia buergeri1 site
- Anisophlebia helle1 site
- Apiaria oppenheimi1 site
- Apocrita1 site
- Apomesodon gibbosus1 site
- Archaeogracilidens macer1 site
- Archipsyche eichstattensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesochrysopa zitteli, 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- On some Neuroptera (Insecta) from Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone1
- Les insectes des temps secondaires. Revue critique des fossiles du Musée paleontologique de Munich1
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 Mesochrysopa zitteli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Mesochrysopa zitteli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesochrysopa zitteli 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 itMesochrysopa through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meunier 1898)