Micrarionta dallasi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrariontaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Micrarionta dallasi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Micrarionta dallasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micrarionta dallasi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Micrarionta dallasi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Amaurellina moragai1 site
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Corbula tomulata1 site
- Ectinochilus (Cowlitzia) canalifer1 site
- Ficopsis hornii1 site
- Ficopsis remondii1 site
- Ficus mamillata1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii1 site
- Goniobasis diegoensis1 site
- Lima1 site
- Loxotrema turritum1 site
- Macrocallista andersoni1 site
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana1 site
- Muricopsis whitneyi1 site
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum1 site
- Pachycrommium clarki1 site
- Pelecyora aequilateralis1 site
- Pyrgulifera lajollaensis1 site
- Rimella supraplicata1 site
- Schedocardia brewerii1 site
- Tivela cliffensis1 site
- Turritella buwaldana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Micrarionta dallasi, 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- Oligocene biostratigraphy of the Santa Barbara embayment, California: Part II: Mollusca from the Turritella variata zone1
- An Eocene invertebrate fauna from the La Jolla Quadrangle, California1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Micrarionta dallasi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Micrarionta dallasi 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 itMicrarionta through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hanna 1927