Mesomorpha excavata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesomorphaPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya100.5 Mya126.4 Mya93.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Mesomorpha excavata 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

4 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

2 formations

Grodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGlen Rose Limestone — 29.88°N, 98.65°W

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The named rock units Mesomorpha excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesomorpha excavata and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

153 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesomorpha excavata, 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 4 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. 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

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No picture of Mesomorpha excavata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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

No 3D scan of Mesomorpha excavata 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 itMesomorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)