Meniscoessus

Meniscoessus is a genus of extinct multituberculates from the Upper Cretaceous Period that lived in North America.

Meniscoessus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CimolomyidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 165 of 165 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 165 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 11 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 15 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 15 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 15 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 15 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 15 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

165 occurrences of Meniscoessus on record, most of them in the Late 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

165 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

20 formations

Hell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 104.50°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.38°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 107.08°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.30°WHell Creek — 47.87°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 106.55°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.10°N, 104.60°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 45.04°N, 108.80°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.65°WLance — 44.24°N, 109.02°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 48.92°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.68°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 50.50°N, 110.30°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.14°N, 110.85°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.07°N, 110.72°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WAguja — 29.20°N, 103.20°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WWilliams Fork — 40.29°N, 107.86°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFox Hills — 45.13°N, 101.80°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WOjo Alamo — 36.30°N, 108.20°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WLaramie — 40.80°N, 104.65°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WMesaverde — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFruitland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKirtland — 36.30°N, 108.20°WFerris — 41.96°N, 106.89°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°W

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The named rock units Meniscoessus 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.

Meniscoessus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Meniscoessus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

554 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Meniscoessus, 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

51 references

Each of the 165 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. 39 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 content2

Picture of Meniscoessus

Credit
MCDinosaurhunter
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCimolomyidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882