Micrancilla oesiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicrancillaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
27 occurrences of Micrancilla oesiensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Sables d'Aizy Formation4
- Cuisien Formation2
- Sables de Cuise Formation2
- Sables de Bracheux Formation1
- Sables de Pourcy Formation1
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The named rock units Micrancilla oesiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Micrancilla oesiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Micrancilla oesiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Amalda atrebatum12 sites
- Amalda arenaria6 sites
- Amalda bellovaciana3 sites
- Paraseraphs tetanus1 site
- Poirieria subcristata1 site
- Tibia (Wateletia) geoffroyi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Micrancilla oesiensis, 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 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Micrancilla oesiensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Micrancilla oesiensis 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 itMicrancilla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pacaud et al. 2013