Microconchus utahensis

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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 1.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 17 of 17 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249.1 Mya246.5 Mya

17 occurrences of Microconchus utahensis 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

17 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

Moenkopi — 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°W

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

Microconchus utahensis and its relatives

Early Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Microconchus utahensis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 17 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 doi.org. 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 utahensis 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 utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microconchus utahensis 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 itMicroconchus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zatoń et al. 2013