Microschiza

Microschiza

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PurpurinidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 123 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 4 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–199 Mya — about 4 occurrences199–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence237 Mya113.2 Mya244 Mya107 Mya

15 occurrences of Microschiza on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

15 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

Encino — 19.80°N, 103.27°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EVillarroya — 40.52°N, 0.17°EAngulatensandstein — 48.70°N, 9.67°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°ELuxembourg Sandstone — 49.74°N, 6.05°EOberrhät — 47.70°N, 13.25°E

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The named rock units Microschiza has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microschiza and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Microschiza and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Microschiza, 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

13 references

Each of the 15 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. 1 further reference is 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 Microschiza

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

No 3D scan of Microschiza 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.

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What may have been alongside itPurpurinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gemmellaro 1876