Murchisonia

Murchisonia

Ivtorov · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MurchisoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
Environment
coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina

Time the record covers

At least 338 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 483.4 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 396 occurrencesOrdovician — about 15 of 396 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 61 of 396 occurrencesDevonian — about 176 of 396 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 14 of 396 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 16 of 396 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 396 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 13 of 396 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 396 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 92 of 396 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 396 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 396 occurrences491–478 Mya — about 1 occurrence478–466 Mya — about 2 occurrences466–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–441 Mya — about 16 occurrences441–429 Mya — about 33 occurrences429–416 Mya — about 27 occurrences416–404 Mya — about 25 occurrences404–391 Mya — about 30 occurrences391–379 Mya — about 102 occurrences379–367 Mya — about 7 occurrences367–354 Mya — about 7 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 4 occurrences342–329 Mya — about 4 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–305 Mya — about 4 occurrences292–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–267 Mya — about 5 occurrences267–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–243 Mya — about 7 occurrences243–230 Mya — about 12 occurrences230–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–181 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences181–168 Mya — about 93 occurrences168–156 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences471.3 Mya132.6 Mya491 Mya119 Mya

396 occurrences of Murchisonia on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

396 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

127 formations

Achdorf — 48.18°N, 8.76°EAchdorf — 48.13°N, 8.70°ESchwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°EInferior Oolite — 50.74°N, 2.80°WTölgyhát — 47.70°N, 18.47°ECürten — 50.40°N, 8.18°ECürten — 50.52°N, 6.56°ECürten — 51.81°N, 10.24°ELucas — 42.17°N, 83.18°WLucas — 41.68°N, 83.74°WLucas — 42.10°N, 83.19°WBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.03°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ERacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WLilydale Limestone — 37.82°S, 144.97°ELilydale Limestone — 37.75°S, 145.35°EWindellama — 35.00°S, 149.83°EKowala — 50.88°N, 20.62°EKowala — 50.83°N, 20.70°EKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°EWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 78.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 77.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 76.00°WWilliamson Shale — 43.00°N, 75.00°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.46°N, 133.13°WColumbus Limestone — 40.21°N, 83.18°WColumbus Limestone — 40.11°N, 83.14°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WPower Glen — 43.11°N, 79.28°WGrand Tower Limestone — 39.50°N, 88.38°WCape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WCape Phillips — 74.10°N, 94.00°WGazelle — 41.37°N, 122.67°WGazelle — 41.31°N, 122.67°WGazelle — 41.47°N, 122.59°WTorquay — 50.47°N, 3.50°WCephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°ESylvania Sandstone — 41.56°N, 83.65°W"Massenkalk" — 51.22°N, 7.08°E

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The named rock units Murchisonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Murchisonia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Murchisonia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

3,964 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 255 sites for Murchisonia, and this reads 240 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

150 references

Each of the 396 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. 138 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 content2

Picture of Murchisonia

Credit
Ivtorov
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMurchisoniidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841)