Murchisonia defrancei
No picture of Murchisonia defrancei 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 Murchisonia defrancei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 249 million years on record.
The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 125.77 Mya.
7 occurrences of Murchisonia defrancei 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
7 occurrences- Devonian86%
- Early Cretaceous14%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Murchisonia defrancei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Murchisonia defrancei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia defrancei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
172 taxa- Bellerophon lineatus6 sites
- Hessonia piligera5 sites
- Philoxene laevis4 sites
- Clathronema reticulata3 sites
- Devonorhineoderma lonsdalei3 sites
- Euryzone delphinuloides3 sites
- Plagiothyra purpurea3 sites
- Straparollus planus3 sites
- Aglaoglypta tuberculatus2 sites
- Agnesia nodulosa2 sites
- Astralites sublimbatus2 sites
- Bicarina euomphalus2 sites
- Champernownia wagneri2 sites
- Coloniacirrus bifida2 sites
- Delphinuella subarmata2 sites
- Devonorhineoderma beaumonti2 sites
- Devonorhineoderma orbignyana2 sites
- Limburgia squamiferus2 sites
- Odontomaria semiplicata2 sites
- Paffrathopsis lirata2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura kaupii2 sites
- Platyloron bischoffii2 sites
- Retispira elegans2 sites
- Rhenomphalus rota2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Murchisonia defrancei, 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- Mitteldevonische (Givetische) Gastropoden (Mollusca) aus der Lahnmulde (suedliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)6
- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois1
Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Murchisonia defrancei 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 Murchisonia defrancei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia defrancei was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. (d’Archiac and de Verneuil 1842)