Milaculum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoscolecidaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Priapulida
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Priapulida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Priapulida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Palaeoscolecida

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 516.2 Mya to 445.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 5 of 6 occurrencesOrdovician518–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences513–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 2 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences447–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506.5 Mya449.6 Mya518 Mya444 Mya

6 occurrences of Milaculum on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

6 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

5 formations

Lower Comley — 52.56°N, 2.76°WDunleith — 42.81°N, 89.64°WGuttenberg — 42.81°N, 89.64°WAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.81°WAdvance — 56.03°N, 123.35°W

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The named rock units Milaculum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Milaculum and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Milaculum and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Milaculum, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Milaculum 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPalaeoscolecida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.