Microrhabdulus decoratus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrorhabdulusPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 67.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 13 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89.8 Mya67.8 Mya94.5 Mya65.4 Mya

13 occurrences of Microrhabdulus decoratus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

13 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

2 formations

Second White Specks — 49.50°N, 112.17°WLa Colonia — 43.05°S, 69.05°W

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The named rock units Microrhabdulus decoratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microrhabdulus decoratus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Microrhabdulus decoratus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Microrhabdulus decoratus, 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

5 references

Each of the 13 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

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

No 3D scan of Microrhabdulus decoratus 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 itMicrorhabdulus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1959