Moelleritia
No picture of Moelleritia 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 Moelleritia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MoelleritiidaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Leperditicopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Leperditicopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Leperditicopida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Moelleritia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
4 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Moelleritia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Moelleritia and its relatives
DevonianWhere Moelleritia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Amphipora1 site
- Anatrypa1 site
- Aparchitellina1 site
- Carcinosoma1 site
- Cytherellina1 site
- Dialipina salgueiroensis1 site
- Drepanopterus1 site
- Eoreticularia1 site
- Erieopterus1 site
- Filigreenia1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Gypidula1 site
- Heimenia1 site
- Knoxiella1 site
- Leptathyris1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Loxonematidae1 site
- Melanoacanthus minutus1 site
- Melanognathus1 site
- Mesodouvillina1 site
- Nasogaluakus1 site
- Orthocypris1 site
- Protathyris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Moelleritia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Early Devonian benthic communities of the Alexander Terrane, southeastern Alaska2
- An Early Devonian (Emsian) acanthodian from the Bear Rock Formation, Anderson River, Northwest Territories, Canada1
- Coral-Stromatoporoid Reef Complex, Late early Devonian Age, Ogilvie Formation of East Central Alaska and adjacent Yukon Territory1
Each of the 4 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 Moelleritia 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 Moelleritia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Moelleritia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMoelleritiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Abushik 1958