Mesotaxis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalmatolepidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta

Time the record covers

At most 30 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 62 of 62 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 62 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 6 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 7 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 7 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 5 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 4 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 4 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 4 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 4 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 4 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 4 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388.5 Mya358.3 Mya

62 occurrences of Mesotaxis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

62 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

10 formations

Laoyefen — 24.45°N, 108.30°EComabella — 42.33°N, 1.67°EComabella — 42.34°N, 1.07°EBouia — 31.38°N, 4.17°WZhandr Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.87°ERongxian — 22.39°N, 107.55°ELuijiang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EWilliams Island — 50.40°N, 81.56°WHuesa — 41.00°N, 1.00°WGogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°E

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The named rock units Mesotaxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesotaxis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mesotaxis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mesotaxis, 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

16 references

Each of the 62 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Mesotaxis 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 Mesotaxis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesotaxis 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 itPalmatolepidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.