Mesoxylon
No picture of Mesoxylon 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 Mesoxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CordaitalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Mesoxylon on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Mesoxylon and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Mesoxylon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Anachoropteris4 sites
- Botryopteris4 sites
- Heterangium4 sites
- Sphenophyllum4 sites
- Amyelon radicans3 sites
- Astromyelon3 sites
- Etapteris3 sites
- Lepidocarpon3 sites
- Myeloxylon3 sites
- Pachytesta3 sites
- Ankyropteris2 sites
- Arthropitys2 sites
- Bowmanites2 sites
- Cordaites2 sites
- Diaphorodendron vasculare2 sites
- Lepidodendron2 sites
- Lepidodendron obovatum2 sites
- Lepidophloios2 sites
- Lyginopteris oldhamia2 sites
- Medullosa anglica2 sites
- Microspermopteris2 sites
- Psalixochlaena cylindrica2 sites
- Psaronius2 sites
- Sigillariopsis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mesoxylon, 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- Coal-ball floras of the Namurian-Westphalian of Europe7
- Quantitative Analysis and Paleoecology of the Secor Coal and Roof-Shale Floras (Middle Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma)1
Each of the 8 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
Media content0
No picture of Mesoxylon 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 Mesoxylon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mesoxylon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCordaitales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scott and Maslen 1910