Mesophyllum fructiferum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Mesophyllum fructiferum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrences- Eocene56%
- Oligocene22%
- Miocene11%
- Pleistocene11%
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
6 formations
- Molare Formation2
- Borové Formation2
- Meganos Formation1
- Chaya Formation1
- Bassein Formation1
- Borove Formation1
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The named rock units Mesophyllum fructiferum 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.
Mesophyllum fructiferum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesophyllum fructiferum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Arthrocardia cretacica1 site
- Lithoporella melobesioides1 site
- Lithoporella minus1 site
- Lithothamnion1 site
- Lithothamnion romosissimum1 site
- Mesophyllum sanctidionysii1 site
- Sporolithon fosteri1 site
- Sporolithon myriosporum1 site
- Sporolithon praeerythraeum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesophyllum fructiferum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
7 references- Priabonian non-geniculate coralline algae from the Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin2
- The Oligocene coral and red algae reef of Maddalena (Sassellino, Savona)2
- Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)1
- Coralline algae from the Bassein Formation (middle to late Eocene) of Mumbai offshore basin and its paleo environmental significance1
- Coralline Algae from the Aramda Reef Member of the Chaya Formation, Mithapur, Gujarat1
- Middle Miocene rhodoliths from the Korytnica Basin (southern Poland): environmental significance and paleontology1
- Eocene Coralline Algae from the Meganos Formation, California1
Each of the 9 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 Mesophyllum fructiferum 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 Mesophyllum fructiferum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum fructiferum 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 itMesophyllum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Airoldi 1932