Moorellina

Moorellina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MoorellininaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 13 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 13 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 13 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences223–219 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences219–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–183 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 2 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 2 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–157 Mya — about 3 occurrences157–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215.38 Mya139.1 Mya229 Mya131 Mya

13 occurrences of Moorellina on record, most of them in the Middle 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

13 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

White Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WMatmor — 30.93°N, 34.97°EOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°EOlivetska Hora — 49.58°N, 18.12°EKuahongdong — 31.45°N, 104.17°ECorniola — 41.97°N, 12.81°E

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The named rock units Moorellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moorellina and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Moorellina and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Moorellina, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 Moorellina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Moorellina 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 itMoorellininae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.