Mesolinga cardioides

Mesolinga cardioides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.7 Mya164.8 Mya

11 occurrences of Mesolinga cardioides 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

11 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

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 superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques inferieurs — 49.86°N, 4.14°ECalcaires marno-crayeux inferieurs — 49.60°N, 4.80°E

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

Mesolinga cardioides and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mesolinga cardioides, 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

1 reference

Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Mesolinga cardioides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMesolinga through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Archiac 1843