Mesalia

Searched as Mesalia pumila nettoana. The Paleobiology Database treats Mesalia as the accepted name.

Mesalia

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/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 most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 1 of 1 occurrencePaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.74 Mya55.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Mesalia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1 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

1 formation

Soldado — 10.08°N, 62.01°W

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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.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. 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

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.

Keep going

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)