Microsurcula
No picture of Microsurcula 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 Microsurcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CostellariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Costellariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Costellariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
31 occurrences of Microsurcula on record. 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
31 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group24
- Mint Spring Formation3
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Moodys Branch Formation · Jackson Group1
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Microsurcula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
522 taxa- Tropisurcula9 sites
- Microdrillia8 sites
- Acteon7 sites
- Pitar6 sites
- Tellina6 sites
- Bathytoma5 sites
- Cadulus5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Pleurofusia5 sites
- Ringicula mississippiensis5 sites
- Terebra5 sites
- Verticordia5 sites
- Acteocina4 sites
- Agaronia mississippiensis4 sites
- Astarte menthifontis4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Conus sauridens4 sites
- Corbula engonata4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) eburnea4 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus4 sites
- Ervilia4 sites
- Ficus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Microsurcula, 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- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi19
- Lower Oligocene Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, and Cephalopoda of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi7
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Mollusca of the Moodys Branch Formation, Mississippi1
- Hacobjan, 19741
Each of the 31 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 Microsurcula 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 Microsurcula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microsurcula 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1904