Mesopanorpa

Mesopanorpa

Yan-jie Zhang, Peter J. M. Shih, Jun-you Wang, Maria E. McNamara, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren & Tai-ping Gao · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 126 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 30 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 30 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 30 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 30 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous257–252 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences252–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences188–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–179 Mya — about 4 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 3 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences169–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence165–160 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–146 Mya — about 1 occurrence146–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–123 Mya — about 1 occurrence123–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251.902 Mya125.77 Mya257 Mya119 Mya

30 occurrences of Mesopanorpa on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

30 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

16 formations

Kushmurun — 52.45°N, 64.61°EKushmurun — 52.08°N, 66.06°EPosidonia Shale — 52.35°N, 10.74°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°ECheremkhovskaya — 54.17°N, 100.31°EDzhil — 42.70°N, 77.20°ESulyukta — 40.03°N, 70.50°EYanchang — 35.22°N, 109.03°EWeald Clay — 51.13°N, 0.33°WVokhma — 60.10°N, 45.51°EAshfield Shale — 34.09°S, 150.76°EKarabastau — 42.69°N, 70.41°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°EUda — 52.37°N, 111.25°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°ETergen — 51.74°N, 117.36°EGlushkovo — 51.92°N, 117.62°ELaocun — 29.32°N, 119.07°E

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The named rock units Mesopanorpa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesopanorpa and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Mesopanorpa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

884 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Mesopanorpa, 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

15 references

Each of the 30 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. 3 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Mesopanorpa

Credit
Yan-jie Zhang, Peter J. M. Shih, Jun-you Wang, Maria E. McNamara, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren & Tai-ping Gao
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrthophlebiidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handlirsch 1906