Macromesodon

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodontidaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya113.2 Mya170 Mya99 Mya

10 occurrences of Macromesodon 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

10 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

5 formations

Glen Rose Limestone — 32.37°N, 97.69°WPaluxy — 33.08°N, 97.64°WPaluxy — 32.95°N, 97.69°WCalcaires à Stipites — 44.07°N, 3.29°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WSolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°E

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The named rock units Macromesodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macromesodon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Macromesodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Macromesodon, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 Macromesodon 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 Macromesodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Macromesodon 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 itPycnodontidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blake 1905