Micula

No picture of Micula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Micula itself, so it was not used. 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 Micula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
coccolithophorePBDB
Sits inside
PolycyclolithaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 357 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 266 occurrencesSilurian — about 4 of 266 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 266 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 266 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 266 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 266 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 266 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 231 of 266 occurrencesPaleocene — about 28 of 266 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 266 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 266 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 266 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 266 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 266 occurrences452–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–121 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences121–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences105–90 Mya — about 10 occurrences90–75 Mya — about 90 occurrences75–60 Mya — about 154 occurrences60–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419.62 Mya61.66 Mya452 Mya0 Mya

266 occurrences of Micula on record, most of them in the Late 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

266 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

20 formations

Jagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 67.62°WJagüel — 39.20°S, 67.38°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°WCorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WCampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WLa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WLa Colonia — 43.05°S, 69.05°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EKizilagac — 37.36°N, 27.49°EKizilagac — 37.34°N, 27.56°EKizilagac — 37.33°N, 28.23°EColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°WAvezac — 43.67°N, 1.11°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.91°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WSkala — 49.58°N, 23.90°EVarnitsa — 48.85°N, 26.20°ESecond White Specks — 49.50°N, 112.17°WLindi — 10.02°S, 39.65°EKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°EPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WPaleocene subsurface — 42.48°S, 63.62°WSaldeño — 34.30°S, 69.72°W

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The named rock units Micula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 133 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Micula and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Micula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

689 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Micula, 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

34 references

Each of the 266 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. 22 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 content0

No picture of Micula was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Micula itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan of Micula 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 itPolycyclolithaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vekshina 1959