Micula prinsii
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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 most 45 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Micula prinsii 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
19 occurrences- Late Cretaceous79%
- Paleocene21%
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
5 formations
- Corsicana Formation7
- Dakhla Formation2
- Owl Creek Formation1
- Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation1
- La Colonia Formation1
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The named rock units Micula prinsii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micula prinsii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Micula prinsii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
173 taxa- Micula murus10 sites
- Nephrolithus frequens10 sites
- Baculites9 sites
- Guembelitria cretacea7 sites
- Heterohelix navarroensis7 sites
- Heterohelix striata7 sites
- Heterohilicidae indet.7 sites
- Nuculana7 sites
- Ostrea7 sites
- Pseudoguembelina7 sites
- Striarca7 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta6 sites
- Cymbophora6 sites
- Dentalium leve6 sites
- Lithraphidites quadratus6 sites
- Micula staurophora6 sites
- Naticidae6 sites
- Cribrocorona gallica5 sites
- Dentalium5 sites
- Scaphites5 sites
- Syncyclonema5 sites
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis4 sites
- Ceratolithoides kamptneri4 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Micula prinsii, 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
6 references- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas7
- Site U14035
- Integrated biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian–Danian succession at Abu Minqar, Egyptian Western Desert: Implications for sequence stratigraphy and tectonic influence2
- Site U15142
- Upper Maastrichtian ammonite biostratigraphy of the Gulf Coastal Plain (Mississippi Embayment, southern USA)2
- A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina1
Each of the 19 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Micula prinsii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 prinsii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Micula prinsii 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. Perch-Nielsen 1979