Mesopristis osonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesopristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mesopristis osonensis 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mesopristis osonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesopristis osonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesopristis osonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Abdounia recticona1 site
- Carcharocles disauris1 site
- Cardita minuta1 site
- Cassis (Sassia)1 site
- Conocrinus1 site
- Dentalium tenuistriatum1 site
- Diastoma costellatum1 site
- Dimya1 site
- Epitonium1 site
- Epitonium (Acrilla)1 site
- Isurus1 site
- Melanatria1 site
- Otodus auriculatus1 site
- Pyramidella1 site
- Serpula1 site
- Sparus1 site
- Striatolamia1 site
- Vermicularia porrecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesopristis osonensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesopristis osonensis 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 Mesopristis osonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesopristis osonensis 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 itMesopristis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Farrés 2002