Mesoporini

Mesoporini is a tribe of rove beetles in the subfamily Aleocharinae. It was first descirbed by Cameron in 1959. It contains 12 genera and 20 species. Recorded observations of members of Mesoporini have been made mostly in New Zealand, Suriname, the United States, and New Caledonia.

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocene115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110.1 Mya23.04 Mya115 Mya14 Mya

5 occurrences of Mesoporini 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

5 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.

Mesoporini and its relatives

Eocene

Where Mesoporini and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

504 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesoporini, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Mesoporini 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.

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 itAleocharinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cameron 1959)