Murchisonia minuta

No picture of Murchisonia minuta 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 minuta, 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 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesDevonian427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences419.62 Mya410.62 Mya427.4 Mya392.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Murchisonia minuta on record. 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

3 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

2 formations

Tonoloway Limestone — 39.63°N, 78.23°WSylvania Sandstone — 41.56°N, 83.65°W

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

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Murchisonia minuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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 content0

No picture of Murchisonia minuta 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 minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Murchisonia minuta 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itMurchisonia through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grabau and Sherzer 1910)