Morania fragmenta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MoraniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
- Environment
- hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cyanobacteria
Time the record covers
At least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 509.7 Mya to 497 Mya.
8 occurrences of Morania fragmenta 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
8 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
- Marjum Formation3
- Duchesnay Formation2
- Lead Bell Shale Formation1
- Vermilion Formation1
- Wheeler Shale Formation1
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The named rock units Morania fragmenta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Morania fragmenta and its relatives
CambrianWhere Morania fragmenta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
207 taxa- Arthropoda5 sites
- Hypagnostus parvifrons5 sites
- Modocia5 sites
- Hemirhodon4 sites
- Naraoia compacta4 sites
- Acidusus occultatus3 sites
- Bathyuriscus fimbriatus3 sites
- Branchiocaris pretiosa3 sites
- Choia carteri3 sites
- Choia utahensis3 sites
- Diagoniella3 sites
- Diagoniella cyathiformis3 sites
- Hamptonia bowerbanki3 sites
- Hyolithes3 sites
- Leptomitella metta3 sites
- Lingulella3 sites
- Marpolia spissa3 sites
- Oesia disjuncta3 sites
- Protospongia3 sites
- Tuzoia guntheri3 sites
- Valospongia3 sites
- Acadagnostus acadica2 sites
- Acrothele subsidua2 sites
- Altiocculus harrisi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Morania fragmenta, 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
3 references- A new, Middle Cambrian, Burgess Shale-type biota, Bolaspidella zone, Chancellor Basin, southeastern British Columbia3
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah3
- The diverse radiodont fauna from the Marjum Formation of Utah, USA (Cambrian: Drumian)2
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Morania fragmenta 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 Morania fragmenta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Morania fragmenta 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 itMorania through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1919