Murchisonia vincta
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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 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 335.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Murchisonia vincta on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Mount Head Formation · Rundle Group1
- Salem Formation1
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The named rock units Murchisonia vincta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia vincta and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Murchisonia vincta and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Anematina proutana2 sites
- Eotrochus tenuimarginatus2 sites
- Naticopsis carleyana2 sites
- Pseudozygopleura yandellana2 sites
- Retispira textilis2 sites
- Straparollus spergenensis2 sites
- Waagenella spergenensis2 sites
- Acratia1 site
- Amaurotoma leavenworthana1 site
- Amaurotoma subangulatum1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Bairdia permagna1 site
- Bulimorpha bulimiformis1 site
- Bulimorpha elongata1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Cavellina1 site
- Cavellina glandella1 site
- Cavellina savagei1 site
- Cimitaria1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Composita trinuclea1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Murchisonia vincta, 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- Upper Paleozoic sections at Highwood Pass, Alberta1
- Description of new species of fossils from the Carboniferous limestones of Indiana and Illinois1
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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Murchisonia vincta 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 vincta, 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 CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1856)