Minutella dragonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MinutellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Minutella dragonensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 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.
Minutella dragonensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Minutella dragonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Argyrotheca sabaratensis2 sites
- Terebratula lapichensis2 sites
- Argyrotheca alavensis1 site
- Lacazella mediterranea1 site
- Megathiris1 site
- Terebratula liusa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Minutella dragonensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Brachiopodes nouveaux du "Sparnacien" des Petites Pyrénées et du Plantaural2
- Brachiopodes thanétiens du synclinal sud-cantabrique au S-E de Vitoria (Pays basque espagnol). Étude systématique et interprétation paléoéecologique1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Minutella dragonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMinutella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pajaud 1970)