Microplasma

No picture of Microplasma 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 Microplasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CystiphyllidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 52 occurrencesSilurian — about 30 of 52 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 22 of 52 occurrencesDevonian444–442 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence440–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 3 occurrences436–434 Mya — about 3 occurrences434–432 Mya — about 3 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 2 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 4 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 3 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 4 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences438.6 Mya387.95 Mya444 Mya381 Mya

52 occurrences of Microplasma on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

52 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

35 formations

Garra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EHume — 65.28°N, 128.89°WHume — 65.63°N, 128.25°WYingtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°ENingqiang — 32.66°N, 105.96°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EDonggangling — 24.10°N, 109.98°EDenay Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WBoola Beds — 38.15°S, 146.47°EUst'irgisla Beds — 53.10°N, 57.43°EUst'irgisla — 53.10°N, 57.43°EKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°ESamuelsen Høj — 80.00°N, 22.00°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EKeyser Limestone — 38.00°N, 80.00°WJifuke — 44.00°N, 83.00°ELeijiatun — 28.00°N, 108.00°ETakuan — 27.73°N, 103.88°EXiangshuyuan — 27.50°N, 108.23°ESinelnikov Horizon — 72.00°N, 52.00°EGreben — 66.25°N, 58.83°EKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°E

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The named rock units Microplasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microplasma and its relatives

Silurian

Where Microplasma and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Microplasma, 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

28 references

Each of the 52 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Microplasma 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 Microplasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microplasma 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 itCystiphyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873