Michelia

No picture of Michelia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Michelia itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia 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 Michelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MurchisoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Murchisoniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 416 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 27 occurrencesSilurian — about 15 of 27 occurrencesDevonian — about 10 of 27 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences452–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–407 Mya — about 7 occurrences407–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–377 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence432.9 Mya15.98 Mya452 Mya3 Mya

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

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

19 formations

Chapman Sandstone — 46.65°N, 68.17°WChapman Sandstone — 46.68°N, 68.00°WKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 49.97°N, 14.17°EKopanina — 49.92°N, 14.10°EUpper Visby — 57.50°N, 18.55°EGuelph — 43.68°N, 80.43°WGuelph — 43.34°N, 80.32°WElton Beds — 52.37°N, 2.73°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ELilydale Limestone — 37.82°S, 144.97°EOffley Island — 81.25°N, 63.00°WFentou — 32.08°N, 119.05°EBrogans Creek Limestone — 32.85°S, 149.97°ELockport — 43.14°N, 77.63°WHangvar — 57.74°N, 18.49°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EGoslar — 51.85°N, 10.34°EWee Jasper — 35.06°S, 148.64°ETsuyazaki — 33.81°N, 130.45°E

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The named rock units Michelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Michelia and its relatives

Silurian

Where Michelia and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

602 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Michelia, 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

18 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Michelia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Michelia itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia 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 Michelia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Michelia 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 itMurchisoniidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1855