Murchisonia akidota

No picture of Murchisonia akidota was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Murchisonia akidota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MurchisoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisonia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisonia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Murchisonia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394 Mya381.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Murchisonia akidota 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

4 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

3 formations

Grand Tower Limestone — 39.50°N, 88.38°WLucas — 42.13°N, 83.03°WLucas — 42.17°N, 83.18°W

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

Murchisonia akidota and its relatives

Devonian

Where Murchisonia akidota and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Murchisonia akidota, 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 4 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

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No picture of Murchisonia akidota was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Murchisonia akidota, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itMurchisonia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linsley 1968)