Murchisonia selenalta
No picture of Murchisonia selenalta 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 selenalta, 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 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 385.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Murchisonia selenalta 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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Murchisonia selenalta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia selenalta and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia selenalta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Archaeosphera minimus1 site
- Archaeosphera wachtbergi1 site
- Astralites sublimbatus1 site
- Bellerophon vasulites1 site
- Bensbergia arculata1 site
- Buechelia goldfussi1 site
- Buechelia wachtbergi1 site
- Clathronema reticulata1 site
- Cookiloxa leunisseni1 site
- Devonozyga bandeli1 site
- Dohmella multistriatus1 site
- Eifelcyrtus blodgetti1 site
- Euryzone delphinuloides1 site
- Euryzone planiformis1 site
- Hyperoblastus clavatus1 site
- Kallispira latostriata1 site
- Kirchneriella striata1 site
- Lukesispira frydai1 site
- Macrochilina naticaeformis1 site
- Murchisonia angulata1 site
- Murchisonia bilineata1 site
- Murchisonia kirchnera1 site
- Murchisonia tricincta1 site
- Naticopsis efossa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Murchisonia selenalta, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Murchisonia selenalta 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 selenalta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia selenalta 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.
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. Heidelberger 2001