Mesolinga

No picture of Mesolinga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesolinga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LucininaePBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lucinidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 18 of 20 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–167 Mya — about 4 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 10 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya119.57 Mya169 Mya112 Mya

20 occurrences of Mesolinga on record, most of them in the Middle 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

20 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

7 formations

Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.09°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.63°N, 4.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.60°N, 4.96°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.64°N, 4.73°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.65°N, 4.64°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°EYamagami — 37.83°N, 140.92°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ESandgate — 51.00°N, 0.83°W

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The named rock units Mesolinga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesolinga and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Mesolinga and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mesolinga, 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

4 references

Each of the 20 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

Media content0

No picture of Mesolinga was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesolinga, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesolinga was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itLucininae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chavan 1951