Moorellina

Searched as Moorellina parca. The Paleobiology Database treats Moorellina as the accepted name.

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 most 1.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.7 Mya182.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Moorellina on record, most of them in the Early 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

1 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

1 formation

Corniola — 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.

Moorellina and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Moorellina and its relatives were recorded in the Early 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.