Micrabacia

Micrabacia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrabaciidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Micrabaciidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Micrabaciidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 135 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 155 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 155 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 155 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 155 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 155 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 150 of 155 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 155 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–79 Mya — about 8 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 9 occurrences74–69 Mya — about 68 occurrences69–64 Mya — about 53 occurrences64–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences201.4 Mya66 Mya209 Mya59 Mya

155 occurrences of Micrabacia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

155 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

30 formations

Providence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 32.06°N, 96.47°WCorsicana Marl — 31.82°N, 96.54°WCorsicana Marl — 31.74°N, 96.61°WCorsicana Marl — 31.40°N, 96.73°WCorsicana Marl — 30.44°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.19°N, 97.61°WCorsicana Marl — 29.98°N, 97.69°WCorsicana Marl — 29.95°N, 97.71°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 32.22°N, 96.31°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WSevern — 39.04°N, 76.57°WPeedee — 33.99°N, 79.52°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.79°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 31.88°N, 85.10°WRipley — 34.53°N, 88.90°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.68°EOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WTaylor Marl — 30.40°N, 97.47°WTaylor Marl — 30.47°N, 97.45°WTaylor Marl — 30.35°N, 97.65°WTaylor Marl — 29.87°N, 97.93°WEscondido — 29.29°N, 98.97°WEscondido — 29.39°N, 99.02°WEscondido — 29.34°N, 99.16°WEscondido — 29.24°N, 99.23°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.84°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WOberhäslich — 50.98°N, 13.55°EStrehlen — 51.03°N, 13.77°EHouthem — 50.87°N, 5.78°EVaals — 50.87°N, 5.98°ETyubegan — 39.00°N, 68.50°ENavarro — 32.63°N, 95.38°WPierre Shale — 44.30°N, 104.88°W

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The named rock units Micrabacia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Micrabacia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Micrabacia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Micrabacia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

23 references

Each of the 155 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. 11 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 content2

Picture of Micrabacia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itMicrabaciidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards 1849