Miosula
No picture of Miosula 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 Miosula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SulidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 7.246 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Miosula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Miosula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Miosula and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miosula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
143 taxa- Moris lompocana3 sites
- Mysticeti3 sites
- Aethia2 sites
- Albireonidae2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Diomedea2 sites
- Dusisiren2 sites
- Dusisiren jordani2 sites
- Imagotaria downsi2 sites
- Messapicetus2 sites
- Odobenidae2 sites
- Otariidae2 sites
- Panphyseteroidea2 sites
- Pelagornis orri2 sites
- Pithanotaria starri2 sites
- Sulidae2 sites
- Alca1 site
- Alcidae1 site
- Allodesmus1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Araeosteus rothi1 site
- Argyropelecus bullockii1 site
- Artiodactyla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Miosula, 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
3 references- Late Miocene marine birds from Orange County, California1
- Tertiary birds from Laguna Hills, Orange County, California1
- Avian remains from the Miocene of Lompoc, California1
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. 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 Miosula 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 Miosula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Miosula 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 itSulidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1925