Microconchidae

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicroconchidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At least 230 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 194 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 194 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 194 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 168 of 194 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 20 of 194 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 194 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 194 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 194 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 194 occurrences398–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–373 Mya — about 1 occurrence348–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–246 Mya — about 170 occurrences246–237 Mya — about 17 occurrences237–229 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence382.31 Mya152.21 Mya398 Mya144 Mya

194 occurrences of Microconchidae on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

194 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

24 formations

Wordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WDaye — 29.45°N, 111.06°EDaye — 25.57°N, 106.66°EDaye — 25.59°N, 106.65°EDaye — 25.58°N, 106.76°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.67°EDaye — 25.54°N, 106.76°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EMoenkopi — 37.18°N, 113.22°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WMoenkopi — 37.06°N, 113.69°WMoenkopi — 37.11°N, 113.25°WMoenkopi — 37.03°N, 113.27°WMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WSzin Marl — 48.47°N, 20.68°ESzin Marl — 48.48°N, 20.61°ELuolou — 24.96°N, 106.65°ELuolou — 24.36°N, 107.33°ELuolou — 24.43°N, 107.37°ETrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°ETrochitenkalk — 50.76°N, 9.81°EBódvaszilas Sandstone — 48.48°N, 20.69°EMeißner — 49.08°N, 9.89°EMeißner — 49.18°N, 10.05°ECracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WCracoe Limestone — 54.07°N, 2.25°WKowala — 50.80°N, 20.50°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EGerennavar Limestone — 48.08°N, 20.45°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°ECandelaria — 38.30°N, 118.06°WKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EWellenkalk — 47.74°N, 8.39°ESzinpetri Limestone — 48.50°N, 20.65°EKap Stosch — 73.80°N, 21.50°WLapis — 46.12°N, 18.02°EViganvar — 46.11°N, 18.18°EFelsőörs — 47.24°N, 18.28°EKirchaou — 33.41°N, 10.42°EMuschelkalk — 52.07°N, 22.09°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°ETaboumakhloûf — 30.73°N, 4.70°E

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The named rock units Microconchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microconchidae and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Microconchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

616 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 183 sites for Microconchidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 194 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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 Microconchidae 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 Microconchidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microconchidae 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 itMicroconchida through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zatoń and Olempska 2017