Mesolepis pustulosa

Mesolepis pustulosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesolepisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii

Time the record covers

At most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 307 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315.7 Mya306.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Mesolepis pustulosa on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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

Faisceau de E'douard — 50.43°N, 2.80°E

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The named rock units Mesolepis pustulosa 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.

Mesolepis pustulosa and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mesolepis pustulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mesolepis pustulosa, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mesolepis pustulosa

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GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mesolepis pustulosa 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 itMesolepis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pruvost 1919