Moorites

Moorites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
YoungiellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 145 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 4 of 50 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 17 of 50 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 29 of 50 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 50 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence326–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–309 Mya — about 6 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 5 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 11 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–249 Mya — about 11 occurrences399.5 Mya254.14 Mya414 Mya249 Mya

50 occurrences of Moorites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

50 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

15 formations

Holmwood — 28.94°S, 115.54°EWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WAkhura — 38.98°N, 45.53°EArqov — 31.97°N, 34.87°EArqov — 30.99°N, 35.20°EArqov — 30.98°N, 34.81°EArqov — 31.21°N, 35.19°EArqov — 31.38°N, 35.37°ESalairka Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EKhuff — 21.04°N, 57.69°EKhuff — 19.95°N, 57.36°EGraham — 32.40°N, 98.89°WBelovo Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°ESama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WStanton — 39.00°N, 95.05°WDeer Creek — 38.97°N, 95.06°WHoward — 39.06°N, 95.73°WKanwaka — 37.12°N, 96.23°WSmedvinskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°ENaco — 34.31°N, 111.11°W

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The named rock units Moorites 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.

Moorites and its relatives

Permian

Where Moorites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Moorites, 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

15 references

Each of the 50 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Moorites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Moorites 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 itYoungiellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.