Morrisithyris

No picture of Morrisithyris 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 Morrisithyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MorrisithyridinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Lissajousithyrididae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 41 of 42 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 42 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 5 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 12 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 22 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.6 Mya137.05 Mya171.7 Mya131.8 Mya

42 occurrences of Morrisithyris 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

42 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

4 formations

"Bifurcata Oolith" — 48.87°N, 10.35°E"Bifurcata Oolith" — 48.03°N, 8.68°ECalcaires à oncolithes — 41.93°N, 0.85°ECalcaires à oncolithes — 42.09°N, 1.23°E"Parkinsoni Oolith" — 48.87°N, 10.35°EInferior Oolite — 50.82°N, 2.79°W

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The named rock units Morrisithyris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Morrisithyris and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Morrisithyris, 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

9 references

Each of the 42 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 Morrisithyris 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 Morrisithyris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Morrisithyris 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 itMorrisithyridinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alméras 1970