Morus atlanticus
No picture of Morus atlanticus 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 Morus atlanticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MorusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Morus atlanticus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Pungo River Formation1
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Kirkwood Formation1
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The named rock units Morus atlanticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Morus atlanticus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Morus atlanticus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
598 taxa- Aetobatus2 sites
- Alopias vulpinus2 sites
- Aluterus2 sites
- Ardenna gravis2 sites
- Bagre2 sites
- Bolivina2 sites
- Carcharhinus leucas2 sites
- Carcharhinus perezi2 sites
- Carcharhinus plumbeus2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Chaenogaleus affinis2 sites
- Ciconia2 sites
- Echinorhinus blakei2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus2 sites
- Lagodon rhomboides2 sites
- Larus2 sites
- Megachasma2 sites
- Mobula2 sites
- Moris loxostyla2 sites
- Negaprion brevirostris2 sites
- Ninoziphius platyrostris2 sites
- Notorynchus cepedianus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Morus atlanticus, 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
2 references- Miocene and Pliocene birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina2
- Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University1
Each of the 3 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 Morus atlanticus 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 Morus atlanticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Morus atlanticus 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 itMorus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shufeldt 1915)