Mesopuzosia

Mesopuzosia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PuzosiinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 64 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 64 of 64 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 10 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 10 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 7 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 5 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 5 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

64 occurrences of Mesopuzosia 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

64 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

22 formations

Saku — 44.07°N, 141.93°ESaku — 44.74°N, 142.01°ESaku — 44.02°N, 141.91°ESaku — 44.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.12°ESaku — 43.08°N, 142.00°ESaku — 43.05°N, 142.16°EAshizawa — 37.17°N, 140.94°ERedding — 40.64°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.66°N, 122.24°WRedding — 40.65°N, 122.11°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WMatanuska — 61.80°N, 147.70°WMatanuska — 62.00°N, 147.22°WMatanuska — 61.92°N, 146.87°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WAnaipadi — 11.06°N, 78.94°EAnaipadi — 11.10°N, 78.96°ESalinas — 14.19°S, 12.33°ESalinas — 14.25°S, 12.36°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.87°N, 0.52°WLewes Nodular Chalk — 51.58°N, 0.79°WOguwa — 33.25°N, 132.75°EGlenburn — 40.88°S, 176.97°ESanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WChico — 39.86°N, 121.71°WKajisako — 33.75°N, 133.97°ELa Luna — 9.65°N, 70.85°WCelendín — 6.68°S, 78.53°WHornbrook — 41.81°N, 122.52°WCelendin — 7.12°S, 78.33°WBranderfleck — 47.76°N, 14.55°ESenneville — 49.78°N, 0.42°EBarnes Island — 48.70°N, 122.78°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.55°WWaltham — 36.09°N, 120.42°WLadd — 33.78°N, 117.65°W

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The named rock units Mesopuzosia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mesopuzosia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mesopuzosia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Mesopuzosia, 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

28 references

Each of the 64 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Mesopuzosia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itPuzosiinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matsumoto 1954