Micropileus obesus
No picture of Micropileus obesus 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 Micropileus obesus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicropileusPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Tryblidiida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tryblidiida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Tryblidiida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Tergomya
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Micropileus obesus 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Lowville Formation · Ottawa Group1
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The named rock units Micropileus obesus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Micropileus obesus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Micropileus obesus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Archinacella explanata1 site
- Bucania halli1 site
- Clathrospira subconica1 site
- Eotomaria dryope1 site
- Eunema centralis1 site
- Helicotoma planulata1 site
- Liospira progne1 site
- Lophospira milleri1 site
- Lophospira perangulata1 site
- Lophospira serrulata1 site
- Lophospira ventricosa1 site
- Macroscenella superba1 site
- Paraliospira larvata1 site
- Pterotheca expansa1 site
- Raphistomina distincta1 site
- Salpingostoma billingsi1 site
- Salpingostoma expansa1 site
- Sinuites cancellatus1 site
- Straparollina circe1 site
- Subulites canadensis1 site
- Subulites conradi1 site
- Subulites regularis1 site
- Tetranota sexcarinata1 site
- Trochonemella arachne1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Micropileus obesus, 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 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 Micropileus obesus 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 Micropileus obesus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micropileus obesus 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 itMicropileus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wilson 1951