Mesalia

Mesalia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.

Mesalia

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PareorinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 385 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 385 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 385 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 385 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 385 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 385 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 201 of 385 occurrencesEocene — about 138 of 385 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 385 occurrencesMiocene — about 11 of 385 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 385 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 385 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 80 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 124 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 37 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 93 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences199.5 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

385 occurrences of Mesalia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

385 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

71 formations

Clayton — 31.83°N, 86.62°WClayton — 31.90°N, 86.88°WClayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.29°WClayton — 32.12°N, 87.26°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WClayton — 31.87°N, 85.43°WClayton — 32.13°N, 87.40°WClayton — 34.25°N, 89.00°WClayton — 34.73°N, 88.95°WClayton — 32.07°N, 84.54°WClayton — 31.61°N, 85.05°WClayton — 35.06°N, 88.89°WClayton — 31.22°N, 96.91°WClayton — 33.70°N, 80.21°WClayton — 33.60°N, 79.85°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WClayton — 34.75°N, 92.29°WSanta Susana — 34.08°N, 118.56°WSanta Susana — 34.30°N, 118.66°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.72°WSanta Susana — 34.08°N, 118.54°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 31.14°N, 95.92°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 29.95°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.36°N, 95.42°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 32.20°N, 87.76°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPorters Creek — 32.23°N, 88.00°WPorters Creek — 31.02°N, 87.43°WPorters Creek — 32.13°N, 87.40°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WPorters Creek — 32.44°N, 96.23°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.87°N, 88.32°WLisbon — 31.30°N, 86.48°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.32°N, 86.73°WLisbon — 31.02°N, 85.85°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.95°WTuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WTuscahoma — 31.84°N, 87.53°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 29.38°N, 99.02°WKincaid — 32.58°N, 96.30°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 31.74°N, 96.55°WKincaid — 28.71°N, 100.50°WKincaid — 34.63°N, 92.44°WKincaid — 29.21°N, 99.79°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.55°N, 96.63°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 31.58°N, 85.77°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WNanafalia — 31.67°N, 86.07°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ETallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.55°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 31.51°N, 87.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WCrockett — 30.53°N, 96.69°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 1.66°S, 45.37°WPirabas — 3.09°S, 41.78°WCzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.97°ECzarnorzeki Beds — 49.77°N, 21.93°EMidway — 25.70°N, 99.23°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WSan Francisquito — 34.42°N, 117.85°WWills Point — 30.08°N, 97.50°WWills Point — 29.42°N, 98.57°WWills Point — 29.39°N, 98.24°WStone City — 30.53°N, 96.69°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WLaredo — 25.92°N, 99.18°WLaredo — 25.80°N, 99.17°WBarnwell — 33.15°N, 81.90°WBarnwell — 33.00°N, 82.41°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°E

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The named rock units Mesalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesalia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Mesalia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

2,737 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 265 sites for Mesalia, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

76 references

Each of the 385 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. 64 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 Mesalia

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPareorinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1847)