Microparia (Microparia)

Microparia (Microparia)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicropariaPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cyclopygidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 452.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician469–468 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.1 Mya458.2 Mya468.5 Mya452.3 Mya

12 occurrences of Microparia (Microparia) on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

12 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

3 formations

Llanfallteg — 51.82°N, 4.57°WLlanfallteg — 51.83°N, 4.65°WLlanfallteg — 51.85°N, 4.80°WKanling — 40.64°N, 79.50°ESaergan — 40.64°N, 79.50°E

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

Microparia (Microparia) and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Microparia (Microparia) and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Microparia (Microparia), 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

2 references

Each of the 12 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 Microparia (Microparia)

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Microparia (Microparia) 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 itMicroparia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hawle and Corda 1847