Microecia
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EntalophoridaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 124 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
4 occurrences of Microecia on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic50%
- Oligocene50%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Microecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microecia and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Microecia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Oncousoecia3 sites
- Plagioecia3 sites
- Antropora2 sites
- Buratina2 sites
- Casearia articulata2 sites
- Celleporaria2 sites
- Ceriocava corymbosa2 sites
- Cnemidiastrum2 sites
- Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum2 sites
- Crania2 sites
- Craticularia2 sites
- Craticularia parallela2 sites
- Cribrospongia2 sites
- Cribrospongia reticulata2 sites
- Cypellia2 sites
- Cypellia rugosa2 sites
- Diaperoecia2 sites
- Discophyma2 sites
- Discophyma dolata2 sites
- Enoplostomella2 sites
- Escharella2 sites
- Exochoecia2 sites
- Filisparsa2 sites
- Glomerula serpentina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Microecia, 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
3 references- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa2
- Les biohermes a spongiaires et leur environnement dans l'Oxfordien du Jura Meridional [Sponge bioherms and their environment in the Oxfordian of the Southern Jura]1
- Les formations a spongiaires des Calcaires Lites (Oxfordien Superieur du Jura meridional) [The sponge formations of the Calcaires Lites (Upper Oxfordian of the southern Jura)]1
Each of the 4 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. 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 content1
Picture of Microecia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Microecia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEntalophoridae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Canu 1918