Morum (Oniscidea)

Oniscidea Morch, a relative of Morum (Oniscidea) — not Morum (Oniscidea) itself

Not Morum (Oniscidea). This is Oniscidea Morch, a relative — both are Cassidae.

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MorumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Harpidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Harpidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Harpidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya38.2 Mya15.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Morum (Oniscidea) on record. 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

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

2 formations

Chira — 5.20°S, 80.63°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°E

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

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Morum (Oniscidea), 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

2 references

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

Media content1

Picture of Oniscidea Morch

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itMorum through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morch)