Mesophyllum

Mesophyllum is a genus of red alga belonging to the family Hapalidiaceae.

Mesophyllum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesophyllaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta

Time the record covers

At least 410 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 0 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 736 occurrencesDevonian — about 60 of 736 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 736 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 736 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 736 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 736 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 736 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 736 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 736 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 736 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 736 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 736 occurrencesPaleocene — about 58 of 736 occurrencesEocene — about 160 of 736 occurrencesOligocene — about 72 of 736 occurrencesMiocene — about 260 of 736 occurrencesPliocene — about 33 of 736 occurrencesPleistocene — about 50 of 736 occurrences421–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–393 Mya — about 6 occurrences393–379 Mya — about 52 occurrences379–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–183 Mya — about 7 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–56 Mya — about 57 occurrences56–42 Mya — about 71 occurrences42–28 Mya — about 113 occurrences28–14 Mya — about 126 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 297 occurrences410.62 Mya11.7 ka421 Mya0 Mya

736 occurrences of Mesophyllum on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

736 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

119 formations

Tortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ELithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°EMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EMiyara — 24.42°N, 124.08°EMiyara — 24.47°N, 124.25°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.23°EMiyara — 24.43°N, 124.25°ETziqlag — 31.57°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.30°N, 34.62°ETziqlag — 31.80°N, 34.73°ETziqlag — 31.38°N, 34.67°EPinczow — 50.52°N, 20.53°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.38°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.87°N, 14.33°EUmatac — 13.33°N, 144.68°EMonte S Angelo — 42.69°N, 9.32°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ESafonovski — 54.30°N, 86.23°ESafonovski — 54.37°N, 86.18°ESafonovski — 56.13°N, 85.97°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EChaya — 21.58°N, 69.63°EChaya — 22.47°N, 69.07°EChaya — 22.33°N, 68.95°EChaya — 22.42°N, 69.00°ESylhet Limestone — 23.03°N, 88.58°ESylhet Limestone — 22.31°N, 88.28°ESylhet Limestone — 22.59°N, 88.01°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.40°N, 14.01°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.45°N, 13.92°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.53°N, 13.77°ECalcari a Briozoi e Litotamni — 41.64°N, 13.66°ETorquay Limestone — 50.45°N, 3.50°WManiyara Fort — 23.08°N, 68.70°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.59°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ECiezkowice Sandstone — 49.73°N, 20.72°EPozba — 47.82°N, 18.64°EPozba — 48.20°N, 19.20°EBorové — 49.28°N, 19.75°E

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The named rock units Mesophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 95 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 275 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesophyllum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Mesophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,248 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 415 sites for Mesophyllum, and this reads 240 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

193 references

Each of the 736 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. 181 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 Mesophyllum

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesophyllum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMesophyllaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lemoine 1930