Microconchus phlyctaena
No picture of Microconchus phlyctaena 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 Microconchus phlyctaena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicroconchusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculitida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tentaculita
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Microconchus phlyctaena 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
2 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Microconchus phlyctaena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Microconchus phlyctaena and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Microconchus phlyctaena and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Bairdia1 site
- Callicythere1 site
- Claraia aurita1 site
- Claraia clarai1 site
- Cyclogyra1 site
- Ellisonia1 site
- Eumorphotis1 site
- Hindeodus parvus1 site
- Hollinella tingi1 site
- Isarcicella isarcica1 site
- Liuzhinia1 site
- Liuzhinia parva1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Polycope1 site
- Spirorbis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Microconchus phlyctaena, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Lower Triassic shallow marine succession in the Bükk Mountains, NE Hungary1
- New Stratigraphic and Palaeogeographic Results from the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic of the Middle Pontides (Northern Turkey) in the Azdavay, Devrekani, Küre and Inebolu Areas: Implications for the Carboniferous - Early Cretaceous Geodynamic Evolution and Some Related Remarks to the Karakaya Oceanic Rift Basin1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Microconchus phlyctaena 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 Microconchus phlyctaena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microconchus phlyctaena 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 itMicroconchus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brönnimann and Zaninetti 1972)