Pyrula microtricha

Not Pyrula microtricha. This is Pyrula microtricha Römer, 1843, a relative — both are Ficidae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FicusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ficidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ficidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ficidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pyrula microtricha 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pyrula microtricha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyrula microtricha and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pyrula microtricha and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Agniesella wurmi1 site
- Antirotella helicinaeformis1 site
- Babinicardia ibergense1 site
- Bensbergia elongata1 site
- Coloniacirrus bifida1 site
- Coloniacirrus primordialis1 site
- Decorochilina phillipsii1 site
- Euryzone sublaevis1 site
- Humboldtiella imbricata1 site
- Ibergia centrifuga1 site
- Loxonema subulata1 site
- Murchisonia hercynica1 site
- Naticopsis (Naticopsis) excentrica1 site
- Naticopsis inflata1 site
- Naticopsis marginata1 site
- Nylanderina bisulcata1 site
- Palaeocapulus trigonus1 site
- Platyceras compressus1 site
- Platyceras contortus1 site
- Pseudophorus oxygonus1 site
- Pseudozygopleura subclathrata1 site
- Roemeriella octocinctus1 site
- Serpulospira centrifuga1 site
- Shansiella canaliculatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pyrula microtricha, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Pyrula microtricha Römer, 1843
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pyrula microtricha 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 itFicus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Römer 1843