Mesuropetala muensteri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesuropetalaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, insectivorePBDB, for Odonata
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Odonata
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Odonata
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Odonata
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Odonata
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Mesuropetala muensteri on record, most of them in the Late 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
15 occurrences- Late 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 Mesuropetala muensteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesuropetala muensteri and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Mesuropetala muensteri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Cymatophlebia longialata10 sites
- Isophlebia aspasia7 sites
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius6 sites
- Chresmoda obscura6 sites
- Hexagenites cellulosus6 sites
- Prolystra lithographica6 sites
- Tarsophlebia eximia6 sites
- Ditomoptera dubia5 sites
- Lithoblatta lithophila5 sites
- Mesonepa primordialis5 sites
- Myrmicium schroeteri5 sites
- Protolindenia antiqua5 sites
- Pseudohydrophilus avitus5 sites
- Pycnophlebia speciosa5 sites
- Scarabaeides deperditus5 sites
- Stenophlebia latreillei5 sites
- Urogomphus giganteus5 sites
- Actea sphinx4 sites
- Aeschnogomphus buchi4 sites
- Archipsyche eichstattensis4 sites
- Elcana lithophila4 sites
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica4 sites
- Locustopsis germari4 sites
- Mesephemera procera4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Mesuropetala muensteri, 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
8 references- A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera)6
- A revision of the fossil petalurid dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Petalurida)3
- Fossil insects from the Tithonian "Solnhofener Plattenkalke" in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna1
- Jurassic insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology1
- Revue critique de quelques insectes fossiles du Musée Teyler1
- Die Insecten aus dem lithographischen Schiefer1
- Die fossilen Libellen Europa's1
- Die versteinerten Insecten Solenhofens1
Each of the 15 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 Mesuropetala muensteri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mesuropetala muensteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMesuropetala through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Germar 1839)