Micula murus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiculaPBDB
- 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 4.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 70.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.
34 occurrences of Micula murus 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
34 occurrences- Late Cretaceous89%
- Paleocene11%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Micula murus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micula murus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Micula murus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
155 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis19 sites
- Micula staurophora17 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii14 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae13 sites
- Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii12 sites
- Cribrocorona gallica10 sites
- Micula prinsii10 sites
- Cervisiella operculata9 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae9 sites
- Eiffellithus gorkae9 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus9 sites
- Micula concava9 sites
- Micula cubiformis9 sites
- Placozygus spiralis8 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea8 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri8 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata7 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus7 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum7 sites
- Micula decussata7 sites
- Prediscosphaera grandis7 sites
- Acuturris scotus6 sites
- Biscutum arrogans6 sites
- Biscutum constans6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Micula murus, 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
9 references- Site U140311
- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin8
- Site U14805
- Site U14433
- Integrated biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian–Danian succession at Abu Minqar, Egyptian Western Desert: Implications for sequence stratigraphy and tectonic influence2
- Site U15142
- A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina1
- Upper Maastrichtian ammonite biostratigraphy of the Gulf Coastal Plain (Mississippi Embayment, southern USA)1
- Site U14071
Each of the 34 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 Micula murus 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 Micula murus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micula murus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMicula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martini 1961)