Mucrospirifer mucronatus

Mucrospirifer mucronatus is a species of articulate brachiopod from the middle Devonian. The species serves as an index fossil for the middle Devonian.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MucrospiriferPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 372.15 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 466 of 466 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–392 Mya — about 1 occurrence392–391 Mya — about 1 occurrence391–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–390 Mya — about 1 occurrence390–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–388 Mya — about 1 occurrence388–387 Mya — about 53 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 58 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 58 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 58 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 58 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 58 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 59 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 40 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394 Mya371.6 Mya

466 occurrences of Mucrospirifer mucronatus 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

466 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

24 formations

Moscow — 42.70°N, 76.75°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.82°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.89°WMoscow — 42.70°N, 78.95°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.70°WMoscow — 42.56°N, 74.58°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.54°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.73°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 76.34°WMoscow — 42.79°N, 76.15°WMoscow — 42.80°N, 76.09°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.99°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 75.91°WMoscow — 42.66°N, 75.38°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 75.18°WMoscow — 42.76°N, 75.73°WMoscow — 42.68°N, 75.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 75.48°WMoscow — 42.62°N, 75.34°WMoscow — 42.65°N, 75.19°WMoscow — 42.58°N, 75.06°WMoscow — 42.60°N, 74.95°WMoscow — 42.59°N, 74.96°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.82°WMoscow — 42.52°N, 74.86°WMoscow — 42.57°N, 74.75°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.60°WMoscow — 42.55°N, 74.50°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 78.65°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.96°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.78°N, 76.99°WLudlowville — 42.94°N, 78.13°WLudlowville — 42.90°N, 78.22°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 77.90°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.14°WLudlowville — 42.79°N, 75.56°WLudlowville — 42.81°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 75.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 76.25°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 75.99°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 75.89°WLudlowville — 42.74°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 42.33°N, 74.45°WGeneseo — 42.67°N, 75.59°WGeneseo — 42.44°N, 74.54°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.42°WGeneseo — 42.57°N, 75.34°WGeneseo — 42.58°N, 75.16°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.01°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.99°WGeneseo — 42.54°N, 74.81°WGeneseo — 42.56°N, 74.85°WGeneseo — 42.48°N, 74.61°WGeneseo — 42.62°N, 75.37°WGeneseo — 42.50°N, 75.52°WGeneseo — 42.53°N, 74.93°WGeneseo — 42.65°N, 75.86°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 74.68°WGeneseo — 42.51°N, 75.13°WGeneseo — 42.60°N, 75.54°WGeneseo — 45.65°N, 75.39°WGeneseo — 42.64°N, 75.77°WGeneseo — 42.39°N, 74.43°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.99°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.89°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 75.88°WSkaneateles — 42.90°N, 75.60°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.58°WSkaneateles — 42.88°N, 75.52°WSkaneateles — 43.00°N, 75.41°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 75.42°WSkaneateles — 42.82°N, 75.40°WSkaneateles — 42.79°N, 75.27°WSkaneateles — 42.85°N, 75.18°WSkaneateles — 42.83°N, 75.02°WSkaneateles — 42.82°N, 75.10°WSkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.88°WSkaneateles — 42.81°N, 76.81°WTully — 42.60°N, 75.34°WTully — 42.83°N, 75.78°WTully — 42.81°N, 75.91°WTully — 42.74°N, 75.88°WTully — 42.59°N, 75.18°WTully — 42.58°N, 75.05°WTully — 42.53°N, 75.09°WTully — 42.61°N, 74.98°WTully — 42.54°N, 74.81°WTully — 42.52°N, 74.86°WTully — 42.43°N, 74.50°WMahantango — 40.33°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.17°WMahantango — 40.42°N, 77.00°WMahantango — 39.25°N, 78.86°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WMarcellus — 42.90°N, 76.93°WMarcellus — 42.51°N, 74.05°WIthaca — 40.46°N, 77.17°WIthaca — 40.48°N, 77.13°WIthaca — 42.39°N, 76.51°WIdri — 27.50°N, 13.50°EIdri — 27.50°N, 13.10°EIdri — 27.40°N, 13.10°EGilboa — 42.38°N, 74.86°WGilboa — 42.53°N, 76.59°WHamilton — 42.80°N, 76.09°WJaycox — 42.82°N, 77.29°WJaycox — 42.76°N, 76.97°WMillport equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WBeers Hill equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WRhinestreet — 42.70°N, 74.93°WMeads Creek equivalent — 42.70°N, 74.93°WRio Chitagá — 8.00°N, 73.00°WNorway Point — 45.13°N, 83.10°WWest River — 42.33°N, 75.87°WChemung — 42.35°N, 76.36°WPlum Brook Shale — 41.00°N, 83.00°WOatka — 42.60°N, 74.33°WArkona Shale — 43.08°N, 81.83°W

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The named rock units Mucrospirifer mucronatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mucrospirifer mucronatus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Mucrospirifer mucronatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

472 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 370 sites for Mucrospirifer mucronatus, and this reads 240 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

31 references

Each of the 466 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. 19 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.

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