Mesophyllum mengaudii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
11 occurrences of Mesophyllum mengaudii on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Mesophyllum mengaudii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesophyllum mengaudii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesophyllum mengaudii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Polystrata alba2 sites
- Actinacis cymatocllysta1 site
- Actinacis porosa1 site
- Actinacis remesi1 site
- Agathelia asperella1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium nummuliticum1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bullopora multicamerata1 site
- Chapmanina1 site
- Corallina abundans1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Elianella elegans1 site
- Epiphaxum1 site
- Fischerina1 site
- Gypsina ogormani1 site
- Lithophyllum1 site
- Lithophyllum continuum1 site
- Lithophyllum densum1 site
- Lithophyllum dubium1 site
- Lithophyllum quadrangulum1 site
- Lithothamnion1 site
- Lithothamnion andrusovi1 site
- Lithothamnium andrusovi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesophyllum mengaudii, 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
8 references- Taxonomic assessment of coralline algal species (Rhodophyta; Corallinales and Sporolithales) described by Pfender, Lemoine, and Miranda from northern Spain type localities2
- Les algues des formations transgressives maestrichtiennes, paléocènes et yprésiennes de la côte sud-orientale de la Corse2
- Coralline Algae from the Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of Greece2
- Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)1
- Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene Shaghap reef (Armenia): composition and paleoenvironment1
- Wapienie glonowe i rodolity z piaskowców ciężkowickich jednostki śląskiej w Karpatach1
- Samuel et al., 19721
- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)1
Each of the 11 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 mengaudii 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 mengaudii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum mengaudii 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. (Lemoine 1934)