Mesosmylina

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MesosmylininaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 7 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 7 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 1 occurrence184–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–165 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences182.9 Mya149.2 Mya185 Mya142.3 Mya

7 occurrences of Mesosmylina 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

7 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

5 formations

Sagul — 39.98°N, 70.43°EPosidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°EItat — 56.17°N, 93.17°EZhargalant — 48.50°N, 92.80°EUkurei — 52.31°N, 117.04°E

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The named rock units Mesosmylina 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.

Mesosmylina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

470 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mesosmylina, 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

Each of the 7 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 Mesosmylina 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 Mesosmylina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mesosmylina 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 itMesosmylininae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bode 1953