Mesosaccella toddi
No picture of Mesosaccella toddi 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 Mesosaccella toddi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesosaccellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mesosaccella toddi on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 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.
Mesosaccella toddi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Mesosaccella toddi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Mesosaccella rogovi4 sites
- Nucinella svalbardensis4 sites
- Solemya (Petrasma) woodwardiana4 sites
- Buchia3 sites
- Camptonectes3 sites
- Lingularia krausei3 sites
- Oxytoma (Oxytoma) octavia3 sites
- Praelongithyris borealis3 sites
- Pseudotrapezium groenlandicum3 sites
- Ptilorhynchia obscuricostata3 sites
- Goniomya literata2 sites
- Cretaxinus hurumi1 site
- Cyrtothyris1 site
- Cyrtothyris cyrta1 site
- Dacromya chetaensis1 site
- Pectinida1 site
- Pinaxiothyris campestris1 site
- Placothyris kegeli1 site
- Pseudolimea1 site
- Ptilorhynchia mclachlani1 site
- Rouillieria michalkowii1 site
- Seductorithyris septemtrionalis1 site
- Tehamatea rasmusseni1 site
- Uralella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesosaccella toddi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesosaccella toddi 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 Mesosaccella toddi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesosaccella toddi 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 itMesosaccella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hryniewicz et al. 2014