Murchisonia

Searched as Murchisonia cf. scrabiculatus. The Paleobiology Database treats Murchisonia as the accepted name.

Murchisonia

Ivtorov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Murchisonia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

1 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

1 formation

Adila — 56.55°N, 27.73°E

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

Murchisonia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Murchisonia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

3,964 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 255 sites for Murchisonia, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content2

Picture of Murchisonia

Credit
Ivtorov
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMurchisoniidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841)