Mesophyllum vaughani
No picture of Mesophyllum vaughani 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 Mesophyllum vaughani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesophyllumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyta
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 12.8 Mya.
4 occurrences of Mesophyllum vaughani on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Mesophyllum vaughani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mesophyllum vaughani and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mesophyllum vaughani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
199 taxa- Alveopora rudis2 sites
- Antiguastrea lucasiana2 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium nummuliticum2 sites
- Astreopora schedakena2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Chlidoniopsis2 sites
- Crassatella2 sites
- Cyathoseris hypocrateriformis2 sites
- Geukensia2 sites
- Jania nummulitica2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Lithophyllum anguineum2 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides2 sites
- Lithoporella minus2 sites
- Lithothamnium torulosum2 sites
- Mesophyllum prelichenoides2 sites
- Montastrea irradians2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Oncoba variabilis2 sites
- Parisis brevis2 sites
- Polystrata alba2 sites
- Stylocoenia taurinensis2 sites
- Acicularia1 site
- Acmaea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mesophyllum vaughani, 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
3 references- Geologie, Paläontologie und Palökologie der südostbayerischen unter-priabonen (Ober-Eozän) Riffkalkvorkommen bei Hallthurm (Nördliche Kalkalpen) und der Kirchbergs bei Neubeuern (Helvetikum)2
- Red algae from the Pinczow limestones (middle Miocene, Swietokrzyskie mountains, Poland)1
- Ecological succession from corals to coralline algae in Eocene patch reefs, northern Spain1
Each of the 4 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 Mesophyllum vaughani 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 Mesophyllum vaughani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesophyllum vaughani 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Howe 1918)