Mickwitzia pretiosa
No picture of Mickwitzia pretiosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mickwitzia pretiosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MickwitziaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Mickwitzia pretiosa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mickwitzia pretiosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mickwitzia pretiosa and its relatives
CambrianWhere Mickwitzia pretiosa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Cruziana3 sites
- Diplocraterion3 sites
- Mickwitzia monilifera3 sites
- Mobergella3 sites
- Paleomerus3 sites
- Protolyellia3 sites
- Rusophycus3 sites
- Spatangopsis3 sites
- Teichichnus3 sites
- Volborthella tenuis3 sites
- Torellella laevigata2 sites
- Torellella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mickwitzia pretiosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Mickwitzia pretiosa was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mickwitzia pretiosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mickwitzia pretiosa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itMickwitzia through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908