Mesomorpha

Mesomorpha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThamnasteriidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 209 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 239.48 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 80 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 80 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 80 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 80 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 46 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 80 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 80 occurrences244–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–191 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences191–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 4 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 5 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–124 Mya — about 10 occurrences124–116 Mya — about 22 occurrences116–109 Mya — about 10 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237 Mya27.3 Mya244 Mya19 Mya

80 occurrences of Mesomorpha 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

80 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

28 formations

Benassal — 40.05°N, 0.15°EBenassal — 40.63°N, 0.73°WBenassal — 40.52°N, 0.67°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.50°N, 10.33°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGlen Rose Limestone — 30.00°N, 98.20°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.90°N, 98.32°WGlen Rose Limestone — 29.88°N, 98.65°WKorycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°ETheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°EMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WTichilesti — 44.42°N, 28.48°EAugusta — 39.61°N, 117.49°WLlacova — 40.47°N, 0.05°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EChattahoochee — 30.85°N, 84.62°WSchrattenkalk — 46.97°N, 8.30°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°EPodestat — 43.22°N, 5.37°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EBalgarene — 43.13°N, 25.60°E

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The named rock units Mesomorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesomorpha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,281 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Mesomorpha, 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

55 references

Each of the 80 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. 43 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 Mesomorpha

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesomorpha was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itThamnasteriidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pratz 1883