Murchisonia bilineata

Murchisonia bilineata

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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 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 379 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 9 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–380 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419.62 Mya383.4 Mya427.7 Mya378 Mya

9 occurrences of Murchisonia bilineata 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

9 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

6 formations

Schwelm — 51.28°N, 7.28°ESchwelm — 51.35°N, 7.58°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.07°EBücheler — 50.30°N, 8.03°ECürten — 50.52°N, 6.56°E"Massenkalk" — 51.22°N, 7.08°EGazelle — 41.31°N, 122.67°WKowala — 50.63°N, 21.37°E

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The named rock units Murchisonia bilineata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Murchisonia bilineata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Murchisonia bilineata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Murchisonia bilineata, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Murchisonia bilineata

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No 3D scan of Murchisonia bilineata 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 itMurchisonia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dechen 1832)