Mesolobites

No picture of Mesolobites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Mesolobites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SchizocoleidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205.7 Mya184.2 Mya228 Mya174 Mya

9 occurrences of Mesolobites 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

9 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

4 formations

Blackstone — 27.62°S, 152.75°ECattamarra Coal Measures — 30.26°S, 115.23°ESanqiutang — 28.00°N, 113.80°EXiaoping — 23.25°N, 112.93°E

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The named rock units Mesolobites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesolobites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Mesolobites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mesolobites, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Mesolobites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Mesolobites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesolobites 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSchizocoleidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carpenter 1986