Murchisonia turris
No picture of Murchisonia turris 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 turris, 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Murchisonia turris 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Murchisonia turris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia turris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia turris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Conocardium sowerbyi2 sites
- Mitchellia striatula2 sites
- Serpulospira2 sites
- Taemasotrochus giganticus2 sites
- Tropidodiscus centrifugulus2 sites
- Asinomphalus protoni1 site
- Bembexia1 site
- Bembexia micula1 site
- Denayella conoidea1 site
- Globonema1 site
- Hesperiella1 site
- Hornyzyga altacostatum1 site
- Hyphantozyga granifera1 site
- Kandosoconcha pembertoni1 site
- Mesocoelia quarki1 site
- Michelia darwini1 site
- Naticopsis taemasensis1 site
- Ostioma bloomfieldia1 site
- Palaeozygopleura muoni1 site
- Platyceras (Platyceras)1 site
- Ptychosphaera convolutus1 site
- Quadricarina pioni1 site
- Retispira retifera1 site
- Stenoloron subglobosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Murchisonia turris, 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- Additions to the rostroconch fauna of Australia and China1
- Gastropods from the Early Devonian "Receptaculites" Limestone, Taemas, New South Wales1
Each 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 turris 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 turris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia turris 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. (de Koninck 1876)