Murchisonia (Murchisonia)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MurchisoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Murchisonia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisonia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Murchisonia
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 199 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
27 occurrences of Murchisonia (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
27 occurrences- Ordovician4%
- Silurian7%
- Devonian78%
- Permian11%
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
14 formations
- Lilydale Limestone Formation3
- Burdekin Formation2
- Bell Point Limestone Formation2
- Hargreaves Formation1
- Sadler Limestone Formation1
- Pillara Formation1
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The named rock units Murchisonia (Murchisonia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Murchisonia (Murchisonia) and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia (Murchisonia) and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
293 taxa- Ambocoelia5 sites
- Ancillotoechia5 sites
- Atrypa5 sites
- Cymostrophia5 sites
- Cyrtina5 sites
- Euomphalus5 sites
- Gypidula5 sites
- Iridistrophia5 sites
- Mesodouvillina5 sites
- Oriostoma thorsteinssoni5 sites
- Protocortezorthis5 sites
- Schizophoria5 sites
- Undispirifer laeviplicatus5 sites
- Asymmetrochonetes4 sites
- Bensbergia subcostata4 sites
- Catazone4 sites
- Coelocaulus4 sites
- Machaeraria obesa4 sites
- Barocospira linsleyi3 sites
- Naticopsis (Naticopsis)3 sites
- Oriomphalus supralirata3 sites
- Orthonychia daschi3 sites
- Pachystrophia triquestra3 sites
- Skenidioides3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Murchisonia (Murchisonia), 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
17 references- Lower Devonian Gastropoda from the Canadian Arctic Islands5
- Further gastropods from the Early Devonian Lilydale Limestone3
- Late Devonian gastropods from the Canning Basin, Western Australia2
- Gastropods from the Burdekin Formation, Middle Devonian, north Queensland2
- Yao et al., 19802
- Gastropods from the Early Devonian Bell Point Limestone, Cape Liptrap Penninsula, Victoria2
- Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids1
- Early Devonian gastropods from Zhusilenghaierhan region, Western Inner Mongolia, China1
- Gastropoden aus paläozoischen Geschieben des Kies-Sand-Rückens in der Laerheide (Landkreis Osnabrück)1
- Frasnian gastropods from the Bonaparte Gulf Basin, Western Australia1
- Middle Devonian gastropods from the Broken River Province, north Queensland1
- Notes on late Middle Ordovician gastropods from the Advance Formation, northeastern British Columbia1
Each of the 27 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. 5 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 content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Murchisonia (Murchisonia) 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 Murchisonia (Murchisonia), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMurchisonia 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