Mesoneta

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 34 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 34 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 34 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 34 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 34 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 34 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous250–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences228–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–193 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences193–189 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences189–184 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 7 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 7 occurrences175–171 Mya — about 3 occurrences171–167 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences237 Mya125.77 Mya250 Mya119 Mya

34 occurrences of Mesoneta on record, most of them in the Early 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

34 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

16 formations

Cheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°ECheremkhovskaya — 52.63°N, 103.99°EDoronino — 51.99°N, 113.24°EZhargalant — 48.50°N, 92.80°EIchetuy — 50.59°N, 104.97°EIchetuy — 51.72°N, 108.28°EVarengayakhinskaya — 57.00°N, 67.00°EOsinovo — 54.49°N, 87.53°EAbasheva — 54.50°N, 87.53°EPrisayan — 54.17°N, 100.31°EUdinskaya — 53.00°N, 112.00°EUlaan-Ereg — 45.59°N, 107.79°EKhamarkhoburinskaya — 44.78°N, 110.06°EProtopivka — 49.18°N, 37.05°EBukobai — 52.01°N, 57.45°EBokhtin — 51.33°N, 118.50°ETuchengzi — 41.70°N, 120.82°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.75°E

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The named rock units Mesoneta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesoneta and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Mesoneta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Mesoneta, 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

9 references

Each of the 34 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

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

No 3D scan of Mesoneta 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 itMesonetidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brauer et al. 1889