Mesodon bucklandi

Mesodon bucklandi

Uncredited · 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
MesodonPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 7.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165.3 Mya157.9 Mya168.7 Mya154.3 Mya

3 occurrences of Mesodon bucklandi on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

3 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

2 formations

Korallenkalk — 52.36°N, 9.70°EForest Marble — 51.38°N, 2.26°W

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The named rock units Mesodon bucklandi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesodon bucklandi and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Mesodon bucklandi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesodon bucklandi, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Mesodon bucklandi

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Mesodon bucklandi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itMesodon through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1833)