Mesolygaeus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnicocorinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 53 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1 occurrence135–134 Mya — about 1 occurrence134–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 5 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 6 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 6 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 6 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 6 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 5 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132.6 Mya119.57 Mya144 Mya99.6 Mya

53 occurrences of Mesolygaeus 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

53 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

10 formations

Laiyang — 36.78°N, 120.67°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.96°ELaiyang — 37.03°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.05°N, 120.79°ELaiyang — 37.01°N, 120.86°ELaiyang — 36.76°N, 120.64°EYixian — 41.16°N, 119.31°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EYixian — 41.58°N, 121.06°EYixian — 42.08°N, 116.68°EHuachi-Huanhe — 36.88°N, 108.20°EHuachi-Huanhe — 36.79°N, 108.29°EHuachi-Huanhe — 35.13°N, 106.82°EHuachi-Huanhe — 35.17°N, 106.94°EJiufotang — 41.14°N, 119.74°EMogotuin — 44.11°N, 106.93°EDabeigou — 40.85°N, 117.27°ELushangfen — 39.78°N, 116.11°EGurvan-Eren — 46.38°N, 93.95°EChenpeng — 32.18°N, 114.50°ELengshuiwu — 28.46°N, 117.46°E

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The named rock units Mesolygaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesolygaeus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mesolygaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

455 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Mesolygaeus, 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

21 references

Each of the 53 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. 8 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 content0

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ping 1928