Mesophyllum lichenoides
Pierre-Louis Crouan (1798-1871) & Hippolyte-Marie Crouan (1802-1871) · Public Domain · 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
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 129 ka.
6 occurrences of Mesophyllum lichenoides on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene17%
- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene17%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mesophyllum lichenoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesophyllum lichenoides and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Mesophyllum lichenoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Lithophyllum incrustans3 sites
- Lithothamnion3 sites
- Lithothamnion minervae3 sites
- Mesophyllum alternans3 sites
- Titanoderma pustulatum3 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Lithophyllum dentatum2 sites
- Lithothamnion corallioides2 sites
- Lithothamnion ramosissimum2 sites
- Mesophyllum alterans2 sites
- Neogoniolithon2 sites
- Phymatolithon calcareum2 sites
- Spongites2 sites
- Lithothamnion orbiculatum1 site
- Lithothamnion valens1 site
- Phymatolithon1 site
- Sporolithon ptychoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesophyllum lichenoides, 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
4 references- Palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic significance of Pliocene rhodolith beds and coralline algal bioconstructions from the Carboneras Basin (SE Spain)3
- Early Priabonian Mesophyllum dominated coralline algal assemblage from coastal upwelling settings (Central Carpathian Paleogene Basin, Slovakia)1
- Coralline red algal assemblage from the Middle Pliocene shallow-water temperate carbonates of the Monte Cetona (Northern Apennines, Italy)1
- Pleistocene coralline algal build-ups (corallige`ne de plateau) and associated bioclastic deposits in the sedimentary cover of Cutro marine terrace (Calabria, southern Italy)1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mesophyllum lichenoides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Pierre-Louis Crouan (1798-1871) & Hippolyte-Marie Crouan (1802-1871)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum lichenoides 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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What may have been alongside itMesophyllum through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ellis 1768)