Mirifusus mediodilatatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MirifususPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 30 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 13 of 30 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 14 of 30 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 6 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 4 occurrences142–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya137.05 Mya166.2 Mya120.5 Mya

30 occurrences of Mirifusus mediodilatatus 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

30 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

7 formations

Oberalmer Schichten — 47.68°N, 13.28°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.62°N, 13.25°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.70°N, 13.07°EOberalmer Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°ESchrambach-Schichten — 47.73°N, 13.03°EUnit 1 — 35.05°N, 120.17°WUnit 2 — 35.05°N, 120.17°WTauglboden-Schichten — 47.68°N, 13.28°EJosephine — 41.87°N, 123.83°WMonte Alpe Cherts — 44.37°N, 9.43°E

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The named rock units Mirifusus mediodilatatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mirifusus mediodilatatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Mirifusus mediodilatatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Mirifusus mediodilatatus, 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

8 references

Each of the 30 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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No picture of Mirifusus mediodilatatus 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 Mirifusus mediodilatatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mirifusus mediodilatatus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rüst 1885)