Michelinia

Michelinia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicheliniinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 172 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 173 occurrencesSilurian — about 2 of 173 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 3 of 173 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 113 of 173 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 55 of 173 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 173 occurrences453–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences426–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences412–406 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences406–399 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences399–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–358 Mya — about 3 occurrences358–351 Mya — about 21 occurrences351–344 Mya — about 32 occurrences344–337 Mya — about 29 occurrences337–330 Mya — about 18 occurrences330–323 Mya — about 4 occurrences323–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences296–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–282 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences282–275 Mya — about 4 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 1 occurrence269–262 Mya — about 13 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 14 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 18 occurrences426.7 Mya254.14 Mya453 Mya248 Mya

173 occurrences of Michelinia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

173 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

66 formations

High Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.50°N, 3.00°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.57°N, 4.33°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAkhura — 39.45°N, 45.23°EWargal — 32.67°N, 72.58°EWargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EWargal — 32.50°N, 72.20°EWargal — 32.40°N, 72.25°EAli Bashi — 39.66°N, 45.22°EAli Bashi — 39.54°N, 45.43°EAli Bashi — 39.95°N, 44.90°ERuteh — 35.97°N, 51.54°ERuteh — 36.26°N, 52.37°EAli Bashi — 39.56°N, 45.21°EAli Bashi — 39.45°N, 45.23°EQixia — 25.82°N, 107.55°EQixia — 31.62°N, 117.85°EQixia — 26.07°N, 107.47°EQixia — 26.26°N, 107.53°EBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WCopacabana — 19.12°S, 64.70°WCopacabana — 15.78°S, 69.00°WFayetteville — 36.26°N, 93.32°WFayetteville — 35.99°N, 94.57°WFayetteville — 36.23°N, 93.11°WPitkin — 35.93°N, 94.02°WPitkin — 35.79°N, 92.94°WGnishik — 39.60°N, 45.15°EGnishik — 38.98°N, 45.53°EAli Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.51°ETin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WOurthe — 52.16°N, 4.49°EMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WGoughs Canyon — 41.14°N, 117.34°WGoughs Canyon — 41.18°N, 117.32°WBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WLlandudno Pier Dolomite — 53.30°N, 3.80°WNamoi — 29.53°S, 150.22°EFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WFeltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WJulfa — 38.97°N, 45.53°EJulfa — 39.45°N, 45.23°E

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The named rock units Michelinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Michelinia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Michelinia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1,200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Michelinia, 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

75 references

Each of the 173 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. 63 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 content2

Picture of Michelinia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Koninck 1841