Mitcheldeania

Mitcheldeania

Reynolds · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
calcimicrobePBDB
Sits inside
GirvanellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 194 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrences363–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–349 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences349–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–320 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence158–151 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences351.9 Mya157.9 Mya363 Mya151 Mya

7 occurrences of Mitcheldeania on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 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

5 formations

Korallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.38°EGudman — 23.38°S, 150.42°EArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°ELlanelly — 51.80°N, 3.18°WMiller Creek and Wentworth Station — 45.02°N, 64.06°W

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The named rock units Mitcheldeania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitcheldeania and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Mitcheldeania and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mitcheldeania, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content1

Picture of Mitcheldeania

Source
GBIF
Credit
Reynolds
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGirvanellaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wethered 1886