Murchisonia dornapica
No picture of Murchisonia dornapica 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 dornapica, 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 most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 383.4 Mya and 379 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Murchisonia dornapica 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Murchisonia dornapica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia dornapica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia dornapica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acanthophyllum1 site
- Actinostroma1 site
- Alveolites suborbicularis1 site
- Amphipora1 site
- Amphipora ramosa1 site
- Araeonema osterholzensis1 site
- Bensbergia drozdzewski1 site
- Crurithyris inflata1 site
- Disphyllum1 site
- Disphyllum caespitosum1 site
- Euryzone1 site
- Euryzone delphinuloides1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Favosites goldfussi1 site
- Grypophyllum1 site
- Murchisonia bilineata1 site
- Naticopsis protogaea1 site
- Philoxene laevis1 site
- Plagiopora1 site
- Plagiothyra isekei1 site
- Spirifer1 site
- Stachyodes1 site
- Striatopora1 site
- Stringophyllum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Murchisonia dornapica, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Murchisonia dornapica 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 dornapica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia dornapica 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. Heidelberger and Amler 2002