Mirochilina

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PribylitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 7 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–420 Mya — about 2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences443.1 Mya422.7 Mya460.1 Mya418.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Mirochilina on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

4 formations

Pozary — 49.90°N, 14.02°EPozary — 49.95°N, 12.93°EPozary — 50.03°N, 14.32°EOak Orchard — 43.21°N, 75.46°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Mirochilina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Mirochilina and its relatives

Silurian

Where Mirochilina and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

264 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Mirochilina, 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 7 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Mirochilina 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.

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What may have been alongside itPribylitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Boucek 1936