Microdoma tricarinatus
No picture of Microdoma tricarinatus 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 Microdoma tricarinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrodomaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Microdomatidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Euomphaloidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Microdoma tricarinatus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group1
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The named rock units Microdoma tricarinatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microdoma tricarinatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Microdoma tricarinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bellerophon stummi1 site
- Bicarina petilitornata1 site
- Crenulazona angulata1 site
- Elasmonema corrugata1 site
- Mesocoelia obstipisutura1 site
- Murchisonia anderdoniae1 site
- Murchisonia gracilicrista1 site
- Murchisonia sibleyensis1 site
- Nodonema granulatum1 site
- Palaeozygopleura joani1 site
- Palaeozygopleura sibleyensis1 site
- Serpulospira diversiformis1 site
- Tropidodiscus vesculilineatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microdoma tricarinatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Microdoma tricarinatus 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 Microdoma tricarinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microdoma tricarinatus 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 itMicrodoma through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sherzer and Grabau 1910)