Mesomorpha minima

No picture of Mesomorpha minima 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 Mesomorpha minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesomorphaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thamnasteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101 Mya89.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Mesomorpha minima on record, most of them in the Late 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

5 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

Korycany — 50.27°N, 14.48°EKorycany — 50.20°N, 14.43°EBila hora — 50.02°N, 15.08°EMeißen — 51.17°N, 13.49°EDölzschen — 51.03°N, 13.70°E

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

Mesomorpha minima and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesomorpha minima and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesomorpha minima, 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 5 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 content0

No picture of Mesomorpha minima 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 Mesomorpha minima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesomorpha minima 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 itMesomorpha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Löser 1989