Mesoplodon

Searched as Micropterus. The Paleobiology Database treats Mesoplodon as the accepted name.

Micropterus is a genus of North American freshwater fish collectively known as the black bass, which belong to the sunfish family Centrarchidae of order Centrarchiformes. They are sometimes erroneously called "black trout", but the name trout more correctly refers to certain potamodromous members of the family Salmonidae.

Mesoplodon

USFWS Mountain Prairie · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyperoodontinaePBDB
Diet
piscivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ziphiidae
Life habit
aquatic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Cetacea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cetacea
Environment
marine,freshwaterPBDB, for Odontoceti

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 111 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 111 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 28 of 111 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 26 of 111 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.4–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.8–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.5–4.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 9 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 8 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 50 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

111 occurrences of Mesoplodon on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

111 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

16 formations

Red Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°EKattendijk — 51.17°N, 4.85°EKattendijk — 51.21°N, 4.43°EValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.40°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WCalcari di Cagliari — 39.22°N, 9.11°EGrange Burn — 37.73°S, 141.94°ETangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°EFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WCameron Inlet — 39.98°S, 148.08°ERyukyu — 26.70°N, 127.75°ETouril Complex — 37.00°N, 25.15°WPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WArgille di Serrastretta — 38.98°N, 16.32°EBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°W

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The named rock units Mesoplodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

210 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Mesoplodon, 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

52 references

Each of the 111 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. 40 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Mesoplodon

Credit
USFWS Mountain Prairie
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Physunio micropterus · UF:Invertebrate Zoology:507388-Mollusca

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1846