Mesodiphthera grandis
No picture of Mesodiphthera grandis 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 Mesodiphthera grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesodiphtheraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Mesodiphthera grandis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
- Blackstone Formation · Ipswich Coal Measures Group2
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The named rock units Mesodiphthera grandis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesodiphthera grandis and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Mesodiphthera grandis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Eurymelidium australe2 sites
- Ipsvicia jonesi2 sites
- Ipsviciopsis elegans2 sites
- Mesojassus ipsviciensis2 sites
- Mesopsyche triareolata2 sites
- Osmylopsychops spillerae2 sites
- Ademosyne adunca1 site
- Ademosyne brevis1 site
- Ademosyne curvata1 site
- Ademosyne intermedia1 site
- Ademosyne lata1 site
- Ademosyne olliffi1 site
- Ademosyne parva1 site
- Ademosyne ramocostata1 site
- Ademosyne rugulosa1 site
- Ademosyne vittamargina1 site
- Ademosynoides abnormis1 site
- Ademosynoides alternata1 site
- Ademosynoides magnifica1 site
- Aeroplana mirabilis1 site
- Apheloodes obliquum1 site
- Apheloodes rugosum1 site
- Apheloscyta mesocampta1 site
- Archeosmylus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesodiphthera grandis, 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
2 references- Mesodiphthera Tillyard, 1919, from the Late Triassic of Queensland, the oldest cicada (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadoidea: Tettigarctidae)1
- Mesozoic Insects of Queensland. No. 7 Hemiptera Homoptera; with a note on the phylogeny of the suborder1
Each of the 2 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. 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
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No picture of Mesodiphthera grandis 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 Mesodiphthera grandis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesodiphthera grandis 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 itMesodiphthera through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tillyard 1919