Mesostylus mortoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesostylusPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Axiidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 27 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 30 occurrencesPaleocene123–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113.2 Mya61.66 Mya123 Mya58 Mya

30 occurrences of Mesostylus mortoni on record, most of them in the Late 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

30 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.

Found in

15 formations

Ripley — 31.89°N, 85.15°WRipley — 34.76°N, 88.91°WRipley — 34.63°N, 88.81°WRipley — 34.42°N, 88.91°WTinton — 40.26°N, 74.27°WTinton — 40.31°N, 74.10°WMerchantville — 40.06°N, 74.41°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.68°WNavesink — 39.75°N, 74.85°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WNacatoch — 34.18°N, 93.07°WNacatoch — 34.14°N, 93.06°WVincentown — 40.07°N, 74.53°WWoodbury — 40.45°N, 74.17°WWenonah — 40.37°N, 74.17°WWenonah(?) — 40.41°N, 74.03°WEutaw — 31.99°N, 85.06°WDemopolis Chalk — 33.90°N, 88.98°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.24°N, 100.14°WClayton — 32.01°N, 86.75°WMount Laurel — 39.54°N, 75.69°WPataspco — 38.90°N, 76.90°W

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The named rock units Mesostylus mortoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesostylus mortoni and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesostylus mortoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Mesostylus mortoni, 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

7 references

Each of the 30 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 Mesostylus mortoni 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 Mesostylus mortoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesostylus mortoni 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 itMesostylus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pilsbry 1901)