Mesosaccella scapha

No picture of Mesosaccella scapha 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 Mesosaccella scapha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesosaccellaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 121.4 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous121–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.9 Mya119.07 Mya

4 occurrences of Mesosaccella scapha on record, most of them in the Early 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

4 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

1 formation

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°W

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The named rock units Mesosaccella scapha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mesosaccella scapha and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mesosaccella scapha and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesosaccella scapha, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Mesosaccella scapha 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 Mesosaccella scapha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesosaccella scapha 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 itMesosaccella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1844