Mourlonia

Mourlonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MourloniidesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gosseletinidae
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 455 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Ordovician — about 1 of 115 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 115 occurrencesDevonian — about 49 of 115 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 43 of 115 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 115 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 115 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 115 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 115 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 115 occurrences477–461 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences461–446 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–398 Mya — about 2 occurrences398–382 Mya — about 45 occurrences382–366 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–350 Mya — about 4 occurrences350–334 Mya — about 22 occurrences334–318 Mya — about 14 occurrences318–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–286 Mya — about 10 occurrences286–271 Mya — about 3 occurrences271–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence458.2 Mya2.58 Mya477 Mya0 Mya

115 occurrences of Mourlonia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

115 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

57 formations

Moscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.80°N, 77.30°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WCallytharra — 26.37°S, 115.42°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EYagon Siltstone — 32.40°S, 152.27°EYagon Siltstone — 32.42°S, 152.22°EHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°W"Carboniferous" — 50.85°N, 20.42°EOmchak — 61.25°N, 148.95°EOmchak — 61.50°N, 148.90°ELogan — 38.78°N, 82.93°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WBangor Limestone — 34.52°N, 87.58°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WCürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°EChainman Shale — 39.61°N, 113.68°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WKulu — 61.13°N, 147.21°EKulu — 61.11°N, 147.25°ELiscarroll Limestone — 51.89°N, 8.47°WWaulsort — 50.22°N, 4.87°ESutherland River — 70.00°N, 95.00°WAmherstburg — 43.98°N, 81.28°WAmsden — 44.45°N, 106.91°WWhite Pine Shale — 39.28°N, 115.47°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WGrand Tower Limestone — 39.50°N, 88.38°W

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The named rock units Mourlonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mourlonia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mourlonia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,603 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 89 sites for Mourlonia, 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

59 references

Each of the 115 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. 47 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Mourlonia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mourlonia 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 itMourloniides through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Koninck 1883)