Microcheilinella postspinosa

No picture of Microcheilinella postspinosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microcheilinella postspinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocheilinellaPBDB
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 least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Permian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 1 occurrence282–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–274 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences290.1 Mya259.857 Mya294.3 Mya253.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Microcheilinella postspinosa 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

16 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

4 formations

Qixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.45°EChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WChuanshan — 26.42°N, 117.66°E

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

Microcheilinella postspinosa and its relatives

Permian

Where Microcheilinella postspinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

111 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Microcheilinella postspinosa, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Microcheilinella postspinosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Microcheilinella postspinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itMicrocheilinella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Chen 1958)