Microcheilinella

Searched as Microcheilinella delicata. The Paleobiology Database treats Microcheilinella as the accepted name.

Microcheilinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocheilinellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Silurian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 1 occurrence423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423.2 Mya419.12 Mya

1 occurrence of Microcheilinella 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

1 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

1 formation

Maizass — 57.03°N, 78.35°E

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

Microcheilinella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Microcheilinella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,452 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 332 sites for Microcheilinella, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Microcheilinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Microcheilinella 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 itMicrocheilinellidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geis 1933