Majungaella

Majungaella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PodocopidaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 32 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 11 of 32 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 32 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 19 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences161–157 Mya — about 8 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 5 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences161.5 Mya83.6 Mya167 Mya70 Mya

32 occurrences of Majungaella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

32 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

3 formations

Santa Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WPalermo Aike — 50.75°S, 70.33°WDuvalia Marl — 22.98°S, 44.40°E

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The named rock units Majungaella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Majungaella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Majungaella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Majungaella, 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

3 references

Each of the 32 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 Majungaella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Majungaella 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 itPodocopida through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.