Mickwitzia monilifera
No picture of Mickwitzia monilifera 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 Mickwitzia monilifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MickwitziaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Mickwitzia monilifera 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
4 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
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The named rock units Mickwitzia monilifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mickwitzia monilifera and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mickwitzia monilifera and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Cruziana3 sites
- Diplocraterion3 sites
- Mickwitzia pretiosa3 sites
- Mobergella3 sites
- Paleomerus3 sites
- Protolyellia3 sites
- Rusophycus3 sites
- Spatangopsis3 sites
- Teichichnus3 sites
- Volborthella tenuis3 sites
- Torellella laevigata2 sites
- Scenella1 site
- Torellella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Mickwitzia monilifera, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Predation by early Cambrian trilobites on infaunal worms - evidence from the Swedish Mickwitzia Sandstone3
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
Each of the 4 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 Mickwitzia monilifera 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 Mickwitzia monilifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mickwitzia monilifera 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 itMickwitzia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnarsson 1869)