Murchisonia archiaci
No picture of Murchisonia archiaci was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Murchisonia archiaci, 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 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Murchisonia archiaci 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
2 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Murchisonia archiaci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia archiaci and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia archiaci and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Antirotella helicinaeformis2 sites
- Bellerophon lineatus2 sites
- Bensbergia arculata2 sites
- Devonorhineoderma tricincta2 sites
- Euryzone delphinuloides2 sites
- Lotzia schaeferkalki2 sites
- Murchisonia paeckelmanni2 sites
- Murchisonia zimmermanni2 sites
- Naticopsis protogaea2 sites
- Nerrhena aequistriata2 sites
- Nodeuomphalus labadyei2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura antiqua2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura piligera2 sites
- Retispira schwelmensis2 sites
- Serpulospira serpula2 sites
- Turbonitella ussheri2 sites
- Ulungaratoconcha bicoronata2 sites
- Villmaria catenulata2 sites
- Balbiniconcha paludinoides1 site
- Buechelia goldfussi1 site
- Catantostoma waldschmidti1 site
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana1 site
- Hessonia piligera1 site
- Kirchneriella striata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Murchisonia archiaci, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 archiaci was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Murchisonia archiaci, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia archiaci was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMurchisonia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Paeckelmann 1922