Mesostylus pervesleri
No picture of Mesostylus pervesleri 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 Mesostylus pervesleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MesostylusPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Axiidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Axiidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mesostylus pervesleri 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
1 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
1 formation
- Piesting Formation · Upper Gosau Group1
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The named rock units Mesostylus pervesleri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mesostylus pervesleri and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mesostylus pervesleri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Arrhoges1 site
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Cercomya1 site
- Cyrena1 site
- Cytherea1 site
- Desmophyllites larteti1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glycymerita1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Inoceramus (Endocostea)1 site
- Inoperna flagellifera1 site
- Lunatia1 site
- Nautilidae1 site
- Neithea (Neithea) coquandi1 site
- Otostoma1 site
- Pachydiscus1 site
- Pachydiscus epiplectus1 site
- Panopea1 site
- Pecten1 site
- Pholadomya1 site
- Pinna cretacea1 site
- Poromya1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mesostylus pervesleri, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Mesostylus pervesleri 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 Mesostylus pervesleri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesostylus pervesleri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMesostylus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyžný and Summesberger 2019