Murchisonia micula
No picture of Murchisonia micula 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 micula, 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.
5 occurrences of Murchisonia micula 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
5 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
3 formations
- Marcellus Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group1
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The named rock units Murchisonia micula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia micula and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia micula and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
84 taxa- Calvibembexia sulcomarginata3 sites
- Dictyotomaria capillaria3 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta3 sites
- Allanella tullius2 sites
- Balbiniconcha hebe2 sites
- Carydium2 sites
- Cypricardella bellistriata2 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus2 sites
- Grammysia2 sites
- Hyolithes2 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)2 sites
- Modiomorpha2 sites
- Modiomorpha mytiloides2 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus2 sites
- Nuculites2 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus2 sites
- Nuculoidea corbuliformis2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae2 sites
- Paracyclas2 sites
- Phestia2 sites
- Retispira leda2 sites
- Striatochonetes2 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus2 sites
- <Mound Bryozoan>1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Murchisonia micula, 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
4 references- Gastropoda and Monoplacophora of the Solsville member (Middle Devonian, Marcellus Formation) in the Chenango Valley, New York State2
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology1
- Classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York, Part 21
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York1
Each of the 5 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 micula 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 micula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia micula 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 itMurchisonia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1877