Mesophyllum laffittei
No picture of Mesophyllum laffittei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 laffittei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
15 occurrences of Mesophyllum laffittei on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Mesophyllum laffittei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesophyllum laffittei and its relatives
MioceneWhere Mesophyllum laffittei and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Bryozoa2 sites
- Foraminifera2 sites
- Lithophyllum albanense2 sites
- Lithophyllum besalotos2 sites
- Lithophyllum minimum2 sites
- Lithothamnium gaschei2 sites
- Lithothamnium ramosissimum2 sites
- Mesophyllum ingestum2 sites
- Mesophyllum rigidum2 sites
- Sporolithon keenani2 sites
- Amphistegina1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Heterostegina1 site
- Jania dniestrovica1 site
- Jania ucrainica1 site
- Karpathia sphaerocellulosa1 site
- Lithophyllum anguineum1 site
- Lithophyllum bonyense1 site
- Lithophyllum capederi1 site
- Lithophyllum corculumis1 site
- Lithophyllum kamptneri1 site
- Lithophyllum lateporatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesophyllum laffittei, 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- Systematics and paleoenvironments of the calcareous algae from the Miocene (Tortonian) Tziqlag Formation, Israel9
- Red algae from the Pinczow limestones (middle Miocene, Swietokrzyskie mountains, Poland)3
- Calcareous algae from the Miocene of Lebanon2
- Significato e caratteristiche degli episodi a rhodoliti al "Top" del Serravalliano tipo1
Each of the 15 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 laffittei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 laffittei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum laffittei 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.
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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lemoine 1939