Micromphalites vertebralis
No picture of Micromphalites vertebralis 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 Micromphalites vertebralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicromphalitesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Micromphalites vertebralis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
6 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group6
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The named rock units Micromphalites vertebralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Micromphalites vertebralis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Micromphalites vertebralis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Micromphalites (Clydomphalites) clydocromphalus5 sites
- Daghanirhynchia subversabilis3 sites
- Micromphalites elegans3 sites
- Micromphalites intermedius3 sites
- Arabatia bihinensis2 sites
- Bothryopneustes2 sites
- Pseudocidaris2 sites
- Actinostreon gregarea1 site
- Actinostreon marshi1 site
- Adelocoenia compressa1 site
- Ampullospira1 site
- Astraraea1 site
- Carinolithus magharensis1 site
- Cenoceras (Metacenoceras)1 site
- Ceratomyopsis arabica1 site
- Cyclagelosphaera1 site
- Dimorphastraepsis sp. n. sp.1 site
- Discohelix1 site
- Eligmus polytypus1 site
- Goniomya1 site
- Gryphaea costellata1 site
- Leioechinus1 site
- Micromphalites busqueti1 site
- Micromphalites pustuliferum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Micromphalites vertebralis, 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- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale3
- Brachiopodes du Jurasique Inférieur et moyen d'Arabie Saoudite centrale2
- Jurassic ammonites from Jebel Tuwaiq, central Arabia1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Micromphalites vertebralis 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 Micromphalites vertebralis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micromphalites vertebralis 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 itMicromphalites through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arkell 1952