Munseyella

Munseyella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PectocytheridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 19 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 19 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66 Mya2.58 Mya74 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Munseyella on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

19 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

7 formations

Jagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EBrasso — 10.32°N, 61.28°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.96°S, 67.59°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCapay — 39.21°N, 121.87°WJaguel — 39.00°S, 67.55°W

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The named rock units Munseyella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

312 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Munseyella, 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

11 references

Each of the 19 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

Media content1

Picture of Munseyella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Munseyella 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 itPectocytheridae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. van Bold 1957