Macropunctum meunieri
No picture of Macropunctum meunieri 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 Macropunctum meunieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacropunctumPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Macropunctum meunieri on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Macropunctum meunieri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macropunctum meunieri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Macropunctum meunieri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
151 taxa- Macropunctum eocaenicum2 sites
- Macropunctum messelense2 sites
- Macropunctum senckenbergi2 sites
- Aceripollis striatus1 site
- Acrostichum1 site
- Agrypnus1 site
- Ailuravus picteti1 site
- Alnipollenites verus1 site
- Alticinae1 site
- Apioninae1 site
- Araceae1 site
- Araliaceoipollenites1 site
- Araucariacites1 site
- Arecaceae1 site
- Baculatisporites1 site
- Bombacacidites1 site
- Borkenia eckfeldense1 site
- Borkenia philippeni1 site
- Botryococcus1 site
- Buprestinae1 site
- Camarozonosporites1 site
- Canarium1 site
- Carpinus1 site
- Caryapollenites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Macropunctum meunieri, 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
2 references- Eine neue Gattung der Elateridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) Macropunctum gen. n. aus der Messel-Formation des unteren Mittel-Eozän der Fundstätte Messel3
- Systematik, Phylogenie, Taphonomie und Paläoökologie der Insekten aus dem Mittel-Eozän des Eckfelder Maares, Vulkaneifel1
Each of the 4 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 Macropunctum meunieri 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 Macropunctum meunieri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macropunctum meunieri 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMacropunctum through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tröster 1991