Microsolena exigua

No picture of Microsolena exigua 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 Microsolena exigua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MicrosolenaPBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Comoseridae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Comoseridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Comoseridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 16 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 3 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–142 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences170.9 Mya132.6 Mya176 Mya125 Mya

27 occurrences of Microsolena exigua on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 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

11 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.18°N, 20.95°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.23°N, 20.93°EAlikper — 39.60°N, 54.50°EMagyaregregy Conglomerate — 46.17°N, 18.25°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSao Romao — 37.17°N, 7.97°WErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°EAmaral — 38.95°N, 9.07°WAbadia — 39.02°N, 9.08°WPu Khloe Phi — 16.03°N, 98.67°ENiwki — 50.18°N, 20.95°E

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The named rock units Microsolena exigua has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Microsolena exigua and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Microsolena exigua and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Microsolena exigua, 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 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. 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

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No picture of Microsolena exigua 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 Microsolena exigua, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Microsolena exigua 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 itMicrosolena through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1887