Mesoendothyra

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesoendothyrinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 7 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya121.4 Mya155.6 Mya112.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Mesoendothyra 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

7 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

4 formations

Lärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°EPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WCoatepec Sandstone — 18.15°N, 97.40°WBedoulian — 44.40°N, 27.87°E

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The named rock units Mesoendothyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesoendothyra and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Mesoendothyra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesoendothyra, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Mesoendothyra 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 itMesoendothyrinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dain 1958