Mesotaeniopteryx elongata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesotaeniopteryxPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, omnivorePBDB, for Plecoptera
- Life habit
- volant, solitaryPBDB, for Plecoptera
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Plecoptera
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Plecoptera
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Plecoptera
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesotaeniopteryx elongata on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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 Mesotaeniopteryx elongata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesotaeniopteryx elongata and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Mesotaeniopteryx elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Cycloscytina extensa2 sites
- Blattodea1 site
- Choristopsyche tenuinervis1 site
- Conexicoxa crassa1 site
- Diphtheropsis incerta1 site
- Ferghanopsyche rotundata1 site
- Liassopanorpa crassinervis1 site
- Locustopsis ferghanensis1 site
- Locustopsis latipennis1 site
- Mesaleuropsis venosa1 site
- Mesopanorpa umbrata1 site
- Mesotaeniopteryx klapaleki1 site
- Mesotaeniopteryx splendida1 site
- Neorthophlebia robusta1 site
- Orthophlebia extensa1 site
- Orthophlebia rotundipennis1 site
- Orthophlebia shurabica1 site
- Orthophlebia venosa1 site
- Pamphagopsis1 site
- Ptychopteropsis mirabilis1 site
- Rhipidoblattina1 site
- Rhipidoblattina angustata1 site
- Rhipidoblattina latior1 site
- Samaroblattula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesotaeniopteryx elongata, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mesotaeniopteryx elongata 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 Mesotaeniopteryx elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesotaeniopteryx elongata 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 itMesotaeniopteryx through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martynov 1937