Morania

No picture of Morania was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Morania itself, so it was not used. 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 Morania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyanobacteriaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Environment
hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria

Time the record covers

At least 297 million years on record.

The record covers at least 720 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 1000 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Cambrian — about 35 of 46 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 46 occurrencesSilurian — about 8 of 46 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 46 occurrences1012–991 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences991–971 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences971–951 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences951–931 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences931–911 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences911–891 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences891–871 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences871–851 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences851–831 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences831–810 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences810–790 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences790–770 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences770–750 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences750–730 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences730–710 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–509 Mya — about 9 occurrences509–488 Mya — about 26 occurrences448–428 Mya — about 1 occurrence428–408 Mya — about 7 occurrences720 Mya422.7 Mya1012 Mya408 Mya

46 occurrences of Morania on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

46 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

14 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EMarjum — 39.00°N, 113.00°WMarjum — 39.27°N, 113.31°WStone Knife — 64.97°N, 130.60°WStone Knife — 64.78°N, 129.67°WStone Knife — 64.62°N, 128.68°WLead Bell Shale — 42.00°N, 112.00°WDuchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.09°N, 76.35°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EHeceta Limestone — 55.79°N, 133.15°WVermilion — 51.10°N, 115.95°WSlite Beds — 57.75°N, 18.73°EWheeler Shale — 39.29°N, 113.31°WBalang — 28.42°N, 109.42°E

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The named rock units Morania 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.

Morania and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Morania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

816 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Morania, 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 46 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 content0

No picture of Morania was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Morania itself, so it was not used.

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 Morania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Morania 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.

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What may have been alongside itCyanobacteria through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1919