Mesoblattina

Mesoblattina

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
MesoblattinidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 109 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 10 of 48 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 48 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 48 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 48 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 48 occurrencesLate Cretaceous204–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–180 Mya — about 3 occurrences180–176 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–172 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 8 occurrences136–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 3 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 3 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences199.5 Mya89.8 Mya204 Mya83 Mya

48 occurrences of Mesoblattina 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

48 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

Lulworth — 51.08°N, 1.98°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WLa Pedrera de Rúbies — 42.02°N, 0.89°EDurlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WGuanyintan — 26.49°N, 111.89°EGuanyintan — 27.35°N, 113.45°ECrato — 7.13°S, 39.70°WKarabastau — 42.90°N, 70.00°EHanshan — 31.74°N, 118.06°EHaifanggou — 41.75°N, 120.80°EJinju — 35.16°N, 128.11°EJinju — 35.08°N, 128.05°EGreen Series — 49.48°N, 11.78°EZhargalant — 48.50°N, 92.80°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EXiangxi — 30.96°N, 110.61°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EXiagou — 39.97°N, 97.80°EDashankou — 41.67°N, 97.70°EHoucheng — 40.83°N, 115.94°EHoujiatun — 41.70°N, 125.18°EAmka — 59.45°N, 140.35°E

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The named rock units Mesoblattina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesoblattina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Mesoblattina, 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

25 references

Each of the 48 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. 13 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 content1

Picture of Mesoblattina

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesoblattina 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.

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What may have been alongside itMesoblattinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geinitz 1880)