Mesonichthys aitkeni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesonichthysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 18 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–317 Mya — about 6 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335.9 Mya318.7 Mya347.5 Mya306.2 Mya

18 occurrences of Mesonichthys aitkeni 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

18 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

10 formations

Scottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.87°N, 3.88°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.85°N, 3.83°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.83°N, 3.79°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.84°N, 3.73°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.93°N, 3.11°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.74°N, 2.18°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.00°N, 2.04°WPendleside Limestones — 53.59°N, 1.95°WMillstone grit — 53.66°N, 2.08°WChokier — 50.47°N, 4.87°EPennine Middle Coal Measures — 53.50°N, 2.22°WLower Coal Measures — 52.94°N, 1.31°WChâtelet — 50.40°N, 4.52°ECulm Measures — 50.83°N, 4.54°WMiddle Culm — 51.05°N, 4.18°W

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The named rock units Mesonichthys aitkeni 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.

Mesonichthys aitkeni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mesonichthys aitkeni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Mesonichthys aitkeni, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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

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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 Mesonichthys aitkeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesonichthys aitkeni 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Traquair 1886)