Murinella walliensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MurinellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.3 Mya and 449 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Murinella walliensis 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Murinella walliensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murinella walliensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Murinella walliensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Dinorthis hadra3 sites
- Mabella halis3 sites
- Rhynchotrema oepiki3 sites
- Sowerbyites isotes3 sites
- Anoptambonites exedra2 sites
- Alleynodictyon1 site
- Anazyga1 site
- Australispira1 site
- Coccoseris1 site
- Eodinobolus1 site
- Heliolites1 site
- Hormotoma1 site
- Labechiella1 site
- Leptellina1 site
- Lophospiridae1 site
- Palaeoporites1 site
- Plectorthis cliefdenensis1 site
- Propora1 site
- Ptychopleurella1 site
- Stictopora1 site
- Stratodictyon1 site
- Tetradium1 site
- Trochonema1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Murinella walliensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Murinella walliensis 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 Murinella walliensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murinella walliensis 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 itMurinella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Percival 1991)