Mexiglossa varia
No picture of Mexiglossa varia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mexiglossa varia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 161.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Mexiglossa varia on record, most of them in the Middle 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Rosario Formation2
- Zorrillo Formation · Tecocoyunco Group2
- Zorrillo-Taberna Indiferenciadas Formation1
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The named rock units Mexiglossa varia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mexiglossa varia and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Mexiglossa varia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Anomozamites5 sites
- Otozamites5 sites
- Zamites5 sites
- Equisetum rajmahalense4 sites
- Pelourdia sp.4 sites
- Pseudoctenis4 sites
- Ptilophyllum acutifolium4 sites
- Sphenopteris4 sites
- Araucarioxylon3 sites
- Cladophlebis browniana3 sites
- Coniopteris3 sites
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides3 sites
- Cordaites hislopi3 sites
- Cycadolepis3 sites
- Piazopteris branneri3 sites
- Pterophyllum3 sites
- Ptilophyllum cutchense3 sites
- Taeniopteris3 sites
- Williamsonia3 sites
- Laccopteris2 sites
- Perezlaria oaxacensis2 sites
- Ptilophyllum2 sites
- Trigonocarpus2 sites
- Dicksonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mexiglossa varia, 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
3 references- Paleobotanica del Jurasico de Mexico3
- Middle Jurassic ankylosaur tracks from Mexico1
- The Middle Jurassic flora of Oaxaca, Mexico1
Each of the 5 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 Mexiglossa varia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Mexiglossa varia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Mexiglossa varia 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 itFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.