Micraphelia scitula

No picture of Micraphelia scitula 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 Micraphelia scitula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrapheliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 2.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 27 of 27 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266.9 Mya264.28 Mya274.9 Mya259.4 Mya

27 occurrences of Micraphelia scitula on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

27 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

3 formations

Bell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.75°WBell Canyon — 31.77°N, 104.89°WBell Canyon — 31.80°N, 104.78°WDelaware Mountain — 31.18°N, 104.60°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°W

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The named rock units Micraphelia scitula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Micraphelia scitula and its relatives

Permian

Where Micraphelia scitula and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

253 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Micraphelia scitula, 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

2 references

Each of the 27 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Micraphelia scitula 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 Micraphelia scitula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Micraphelia scitula 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 itMicraphelia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969