Mesorhoea idae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesorhoeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Parthenopidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mesorhoea idae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mesorhoea idae 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.
Mesorhoea idae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mesorhoea idae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
568 taxa- Cancer productus4 sites
- Lophopanopeus diegensis4 sites
- Mopalia acuta4 sites
- Pugettia richii4 sites
- Randallia ornata4 sites
- Hemigrapsus nudus3 sites
- Lophopanopeus leucomanus3 sites
- Metacarcinus gracilis3 sites
- Pugettia producta3 sites
- Pyromaia tuberculata3 sites
- Romaleon branneri3 sites
- Romaleon jordani3 sites
- Acteocina culcitella2 sites
- Ameritella modesta2 sites
- Antisabia panamensis2 sites
- Brachystomia nemo2 sites
- Caecum crebricinctum2 sites
- Caesia fossatus2 sites
- Caesia perpinguis2 sites
- Callianassa stephensi2 sites
- Callianax baetica2 sites
- Callianax biplicata2 sites
- Callinectes bellicosus2 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesorhoea idae, 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
2 references- The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America3
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
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 content1
Picture of Mesorhoea idae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Mesorhoea idae 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 itMesorhoea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rathbun 1926