Mesoglauconia

Mesoglauconia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassiopidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya113.2 Mya133.1 Mya109.6 Mya

4 occurrences of Mesoglauconia 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

4 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

Encino — 19.80°N, 103.27°WMal Paso — 18.67°N, 100.73°W

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The named rock units Mesoglauconia 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.

Mesoglauconia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesoglauconia, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mesoglauconia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Mesoglauconia 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 itCassiopidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mennessier 1984