Mesohibolitidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachybelemnopseinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Belemnitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 71 million years on record.
The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.
179 occurrences of Mesohibolitidae on record, most of them in the Early 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
179 occurrences- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassic12%
- Late Jurassic18%
- Early Cretaceous69%
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
22 formations
- Palnatokes Bjerg Formation · Wollaston Forland Group53
- Bersek Marl Formation28
- Lar Formation8
- Latady Formation6
- Luckovska Formation5
- Labatlan Sandstone Formation5
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The named rock units Mesohibolitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesohibolitidae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mesohibolitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
937 taxa- Hibolithes44 sites
- Lytoceras16 sites
- Phylloceras16 sites
- Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus13 sites
- Pseudobelus13 sites
- Plesiospitidiscus11 sites
- Vaunagites pistilliformis11 sites
- Ammonoidea10 sites
- Anahamulina9 sites
- Crioceratites duvalii9 sites
- Hibolithes hastatus8 sites
- Hibolithes jaculiformis8 sites
- Macrocephalites8 sites
- Phyllopachyceras infundibulum8 sites
- Choffatia7 sites
- Crioceratites7 sites
- Duvalia7 sites
- Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)7 sites
- Melchiorites7 sites
- Mesohibolites7 sites
- Pholadomya7 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea6 sites
- Astarte6 sites
- Euphylloceras thetys6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Mesohibolitidae, 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
33 references- The Early Cretaceous of north-east Greenland: a crossroads of belemnite migration53
- Integrated Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy of the Bersek Quarry, Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubian Range. Hungary33
- Barremian invertebrates from Serre de Bleyton (Drôme, SE France): Belemnites13
- Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires13
- Oxfordian belemnites and ammonites from Rostam Kola, Northern East Alborz, North Iran8
- Upper Jurassic belemnites from the Orville Coast, Western Antarctica, and their palaeobiogeographical significance7
- Lower Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Czechoslovakian Western Carpathians6
- The Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of New Zealand and a Review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of the Indo-Pacific Region6
- Lower Cretaceous belemnites of Štramberk klippen (Czech Republic): Implications for geological history of the outer Western Carpathians5
- The stratigraphic position of the ammonite bearing limestone bank of the Marvany-banya quarry (Zirc, Bakony Mts, Hungary) and the age of the Borzavar Limestone Formation4
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois4
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)3
Each of the 179 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. 21 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 Mesohibolitidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Le.Loup.Gris
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mesohibolitidae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPachybelemnopseina through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nerodenko 1983