Mesochara symmetrica

No picture of Mesochara symmetrica 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 Mesochara symmetrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesocharaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Charophyta
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Charophyta

Time the record covers

At most 78 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145 Mya64 Mya

1 occurrence of Mesochara symmetrica 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

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.

Mesochara symmetrica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mesochara symmetrica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesochara symmetrica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mesochara symmetrica 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 Mesochara symmetrica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesochara symmetrica 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 itMesochara through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Peck 1957)