Murania

No picture of Murania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Murania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MilleporellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Agelasida

Time the record covers

At least 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 11 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 11 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous244–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences235–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–138 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences233.6 Mya121.4 Mya244 Mya117 Mya

11 occurrences of Murania on record, most of them in the Late 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

11 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

Schrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.77°N, 13.40°ECassian — 46.64°N, 12.20°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.90°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°E

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The named rock units Murania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Murania and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Murania and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Murania, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 Murania was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Murania, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Murania 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 itMilleporellidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kazmierczak 1974