Mesosaturnalis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaturnalidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 117 million years on record.

The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 18 of 47 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 23 of 47 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 47 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 47 occurrencesLate Cretaceous230–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 1 occurrence211–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–201 Mya — about 13 occurrences201–197 Mya — about 12 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 10 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182–178 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences173–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–163 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence211.18 Mya93.9 Mya230 Mya87 Mya

47 occurrences of Mesosaturnalis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

47 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

7 formations

Sandilands — 52.75°N, 131.55°WSandilands — 52.77°N, 131.55°WSandilands — 53.42°N, 132.27°WSandilands — 53.20°N, 132.06°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WBallik — 36.88°N, 30.50°EPhantom Creek — 53.42°N, 132.27°WPhasoula — 34.73°N, 33.15°EVlambouros — 34.68°N, 32.62°EPotami — 37.73°N, 23.02°EScheibelberg — 47.62°N, 12.58°E

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The named rock units Mesosaturnalis 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.

Mesosaturnalis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Mesosaturnalis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

259 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Mesosaturnalis, 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

12 references

Each of the 47 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 Mesosaturnalis 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 Mesosaturnalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesosaturnalis 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 itSaturnalidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kozur and Mostler 1981