Microcardinalia

Microcardinalia

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KulumbellinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pentamerida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pentamerida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Pentamerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 17 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 443.1 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 0 of 23 occurrencesSilurian — about 23 of 23 occurrencesSilurian444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 2 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 1 occurrence438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443.6 Mya426.2 Mya

23 occurrences of Microcardinalia on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

23 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

5 formations

Jupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.42°N, 63.50°WJupiter — 49.48°N, 63.17°WJupiter — 49.55°N, 63.06°WJupiter — 49.17°N, 62.79°WJupiter — 49.25°N, 62.96°WJupiter — 49.22°N, 62.48°WLaketown Dolomite — 38.50°N, 115.00°WLaketown Dolomite — 39.25°N, 114.88°WMoyerokan — 67.34°N, 104.10°EBlanding — 42.40°N, 91.30°WRumba — 58.61°N, 25.98°E

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

Microcardinalia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Microcardinalia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

184 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Microcardinalia, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 content1

Picture of Microcardinalia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itKulumbellinae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucot and Ehlers 1963