Murchisonia subulata

Searched as Loxonema subulata. The Paleobiology Database treats Murchisonia subulata as the accepted name.

No picture of Murchisonia subulata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and 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 subulata, 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 least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 440.5 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 27 occurrencesSilurian — about 26 of 27 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 27 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 27 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 5 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 9 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences440.5 Mya372.15 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

27 occurrences of Murchisonia subulata on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

27 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

11 formations

Williamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WPower Glen — 43.11°N, 79.28°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 84.12°WReynales — 43.17°N, 77.63°WReynales — 43.21°N, 77.52°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.98°WWilliamson — 43.23°N, 76.30°WClemville — 48.18°N, 65.01°WRochester — 43.16°N, 77.68°WFurnaceville — 43.23°N, 77.33°WWillowvale — 43.03°N, 75.28°WCürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°ERed Mountain — 34.88°N, 85.37°W

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The named rock units Murchisonia subulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Murchisonia subulata and its relatives

Silurian

Where Murchisonia subulata and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

239 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Murchisonia subulata, 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

8 references

Each of the 27 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 subulata was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata and 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 subulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Murchisonia subulata 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 SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)