Mesomorpha mammillata

No picture of Mesomorpha mammillata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 mammillata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.2 Mya83.6 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

6 occurrences of Mesomorpha mammillata on record, most of them in the Late 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

6 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

5 formations

Benassal — 40.63°N, 0.73°WBenassal — 40.52°N, 0.67°WTheresienstein — 47.72°N, 13.48°EVallcarga — 42.25°N, 0.97°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°E

Loading coastlines…

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

Mesomorpha mammillata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesomorpha mammillata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesomorpha mammillata, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content0

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

Wikipedia 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 mammillata, 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMesomorpha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1854)