Musci

Musci

No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BryophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 265 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 9.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 1.4 Mya.

Permian — about 49 of 57 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 57 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 57 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 57 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 57 occurrences289–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–270 Mya — about 21 occurrences270–260 Mya — about 24 occurrences260–250 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence274.4 Mya9.4 Mya289 Mya0 Mya

57 occurrences of Musci on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

57 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

6 formations

Latah — 47.75°N, 117.55°WLatah — 47.64°N, 117.45°WTab-Yuskaya Suite — 69.60°N, 63.60°EEr-Yaginskaya Suite — 69.60°N, 63.60°EDawson Arkose — 39.22°N, 104.22°WDeccan Intertrappean — 22.01°N, 79.19°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°W

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The named rock units Musci has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Musci and its relatives

Permian

Where Musci and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

735 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Musci, 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

10 references

Each of the 57 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 content1

Picture of Musci

Credit
No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims).
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Musci 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 itBryophyta through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.