Microconchus valvatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicroconchusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Tentaculitida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Tentaculita

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 237 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 104 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 89 of 104 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 15 of 104 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 104 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 3 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 58 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 27 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–239 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.1 Mya241.464 Mya252.4 Mya236.5 Mya

104 occurrences of Microconchus valvatus on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

104 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

8 formations

Wordie Creek — 73.88°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 73.85°N, 21.38°WWordie Creek — 74.03°N, 21.60°WWordie Creek — 74.01°N, 21.54°WWordie Creek — 73.99°N, 21.42°WWordie Creek — 74.05°N, 21.70°WWordie Creek — 74.15°N, 21.00°WTrochitenkalk — 51.63°N, 9.03°ETrochitenkalk — 50.75°N, 8.50°ETrochitenkalk — 49.17°N, 10.02°ETrochitenkalk — 50.76°N, 9.81°EMeißner — 49.08°N, 9.89°EMeißner — 49.18°N, 10.05°EWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EMoenkopi — 39.00°N, 110.68°WFelsőörs — 47.24°N, 18.28°EMuschelkalk — 52.07°N, 22.09°E

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The named rock units Microconchus valvatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microconchus valvatus and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Microconchus valvatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Microconchus valvatus, 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

12 references

Each of the 104 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. 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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Munster 1831)