Marocella mira
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarocellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Helcionellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Helcionelloida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Helcionelloida
Time the record covers
At least 7.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 508.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 504.5 Mya.
17 occurrences of Marocella mira on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
17 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
3 formations
- Jbel Wawrmast Formation · Feijas internes Group11
- Mernmerna Formation5
- Shackleton Limestone Formation · Byrd Group1
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The named rock units Marocella mira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marocella mira and its relatives
CambrianWhere Marocella mira and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Eoredlichia3 sites
- Tannuella elinorae3 sites
- Wutingaspis3 sites
- Dorispira comma2 sites
- Galeacalvus coronarius2 sites
- Helcionella histosia2 sites
- Latouchella2 sites
- Pararaia bunyerooensis2 sites
- Pelagiella atlasensis2 sites
- Redlichia2 sites
- Saesorthis simplicissima2 sites
- Yunnanocephalus2 sites
- Acanthomicmacca1 site
- Anabarites sexalox1 site
- Bemella1 site
- Bemella communis1 site
- Chancelloria1 site
- Edrioasteroidea1 site
- Helcionella capula1 site
- Helcionella lemdadensis1 site
- Helcionella subrugosa1 site
- Kingaspidoides1 site
- Lapworthella1 site
- Latikingaspis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Marocella mira, 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
5 references- Mittelkambrishe Mollusken aus Marokko und Spanien7
- Lower Cambrian helcionelloid macromolluscs from South Australia4
- The Paradoxides puzzle resolved: the appearance of the oldest paradoxidines and its bearing on the Cambrian Series 3 lower boundary4
- Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia1
- Marocella: Antarctic specimens of an enigmatic Cambrian animal1
Each of the 17 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
Media content0
No picture of Marocella mira 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 Marocella mira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Marocella mira 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 itMarocella through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geyer 1986