Microcheilinella shicheni

No picture of Microcheilinella shicheni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Microcheilinella shicheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrocheilinellaPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 40 of 40 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 7 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 13 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 13 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 5 occurrences266.9 Mya254.14 Mya274.9 Mya251.4 Mya

40 occurrences of Microcheilinella shicheni 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

40 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

2 formations

Changxing — 31.08°N, 119.71°ETak Fa — 15.92°N, 100.93°ETak Fa — 15.97°N, 100.87°E

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The named rock units Microcheilinella shicheni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Microcheilinella shicheni and its relatives

Permian

Where Microcheilinella shicheni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Microcheilinella shicheni, 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

3 references

Each of the 40 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 Microcheilinella shicheni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Microcheilinella shicheni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microcheilinella shicheni 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 itMicrocheilinella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crasquin 2010