Mesopuzosia indopacifica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesopuzosiaPBDB
- 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 most 8.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 85.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mesopuzosia indopacifica 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Mesopuzosia indopacifica 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.
Mesopuzosia indopacifica and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mesopuzosia indopacifica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Gaudryceras (Gaudryceras) denseplicatum3 sites
- Inoceramus2 sites
- Inoceramus (Inoceramus) cuvierii2 sites
- Inoceramus hobetsensis2 sites
- Tetragonites glabrus2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Anthophyta1 site
- Argonauticeras1 site
- Atreta intsulaevis1 site
- Bathysiphon1 site
- Biplica1 site
- Clisocolus (Clisocolus) odochiensis1 site
- Collignoniceras bravaisianum1 site
- Collignoniceras woollgari1 site
- Cycadophyta1 site
- Dentalina1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Didymoceras (Eubostrychoceras) japonicum1 site
- Eriphyla (Eriphyla) higoensis1 site
- Fenestricardita densigranulata1 site
- Gavellinella1 site
- Gingkophyta indet.1 site
- Gryphaeostrea kochiensis1 site
- Guttulina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mesopuzosia indopacifica, 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
6 references- Upper Cretaceous (Turonian-Coniacian) ammonites from São Nicolau, Angola1
- First occurrence of a hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in the Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska1
- Part V. Upper Cretaceous ammonites from the Monobe area, Shikoku1
- Cretaceous ammonites from the lower part of the Matanuska Formation, Southern Alaska1
- Upper Cretaceous ammonites of California. Part III1
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast1
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. 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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No picture of Mesopuzosia indopacifica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Mesopuzosia indopacifica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesopuzosia indopacifica 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 itMesopuzosia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kossmat 1898)