Microconchus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicroconchidaePBDB
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 226 million years on record.

The record covers at least 379 Mya to 152.21 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 383.4 Mya to 149.2 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 192 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 2 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 192 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 167 of 192 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 20 of 192 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 192 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 192 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 192 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 192 occurrences388–380 Mya — about 2 occurrences380–372 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences347–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–250 Mya — about 130 occurrences250–242 Mya — about 47 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 9 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence379 Mya152.21 Mya388 Mya145 Mya

192 occurrences of Microconchus 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

192 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

22 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°ELapis — 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°E

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The named rock units Microconchus 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.

Microconchus and its relatives

Early Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

551 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 182 sites for Microconchus, 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

27 references

Each of the 192 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. 15 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

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No picture of Microconchus 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 Microconchus, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Murchison 1839