Microcheilinella

Microcheilinella

via iDigBio · CC BY-NC-SA · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocheilinellidaePBDB
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 206 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 450.5 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 538 occurrencesSilurian — about 12 of 538 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 54 of 538 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 538 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 429 of 538 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 21 of 538 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 538 occurrences455–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 5 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–418 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–411 Mya — about 3 occurrences411–404 Mya — about 7 occurrences404–397 Mya — about 8 occurrences397–389 Mya — about 4 occurrences389–382 Mya — about 11 occurrences382–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–368 Mya — about 15 occurrences368–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–346 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences346–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–331 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences324–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–303 Mya — about 3 occurrences303–295 Mya — about 6 occurrences295–288 Mya — about 9 occurrences288–281 Mya — about 18 occurrences281–274 Mya — about 35 occurrences274–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–259 Mya — about 36 occurrences259–252 Mya — about 326 occurrences252–245 Mya — about 23 occurrences245–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences449.5 Mya243.43 Mya455 Mya237 Mya

538 occurrences of Microcheilinella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

538 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

72 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EChangxing — 31.79°N, 104.58°EChangxing — 31.59°N, 104.32°EMaokou — 32.62°N, 105.86°EQixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 32.15°N, 119.10°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°ENesen — 36.22°N, 51.35°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.77°N, 24.23°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.82°N, 23.93°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.48°N, 24.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 24.25°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.25°N, 25.62°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.93°N, 23.28°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.42°N, 22.78°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.78°N, 21.83°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.67°N, 21.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.52°N, 24.13°ENagyvisnyo — 48.10°N, 20.47°ENagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.44°ENagyvisnyo — 48.14°N, 20.43°ENagyvisnyo — 48.15°N, 20.50°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.66°EWujiaping — 32.31°N, 105.46°EGerennavar — 48.10°N, 20.47°EChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WSalairka Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°ESilica — 41.68°N, 83.73°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WTak Fa — 15.90°N, 100.89°ETak Fa — 15.97°N, 100.87°ETak Fa — 15.32°N, 100.38°ETak Fa — 15.19°N, 101.52°EEpiskopi — 37.31°N, 23.42°EEpiskopi — 37.33°N, 23.45°EElikah — 39.01°N, 45.43°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EBellerophon — 46.57°N, 11.63°EChuanshan — 26.42°N, 117.66°EChuanshan — 29.90°N, 119.55°EDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°EDalong — 32.31°N, 105.46°ETulong — 28.44°N, 86.14°EKokarkuyu — 36.69°N, 30.46°EPha Nok Khao — 17.11°N, 101.88°EPha Nok Khao — 16.07°N, 100.91°EBellerophon — 46.07°N, 13.99°EElmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Microcheilinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microcheilinella and its relatives

Permian

Where Microcheilinella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,452 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 332 sites for Microcheilinella, and this reads 240 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

68 references

Each of the 538 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. 56 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 content1

Picture of Microcheilinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Microcheilinella 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMicrocheilinellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Geis 1933