Murchisonia sibleyensis
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Murchisonia sibleyensis 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
4 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
3 formations
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group2
- Grand Tower Limestone Formation1
- Lucas Formation · Detroit River Group1
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The named rock units Murchisonia sibleyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Murchisonia sibleyensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Murchisonia sibleyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Bicarina petilitornata4 sites
- Murchisonia anderdoniae4 sites
- Nodonema granulatum4 sites
- Serpulospira diversiformis4 sites
- Crenulazona angulata3 sites
- Elasmonema corrugata3 sites
- Murchisonia akidota3 sites
- Cerithioides incomptum2 sites
- Euryzone latitornata2 sites
- Hormotomina penduliobesa2 sites
- Mesocoelia obstipisutura2 sites
- Murchisonia gracilicrista2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura joani2 sites
- Palaeozygopleura sibleyensis2 sites
- Tropidodiscus compticarinatus2 sites
- Turbonitella trunculinoda2 sites
- Asinomphalus antiqua1 site
- Bellerophon stummi1 site
- Bembexia gradilispira1 site
- Copidocatomus collarus1 site
- Cytherellina1 site
- Euryzone pharkidopyndax1 site
- Kloedenella1 site
- Kozlowskiella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Murchisonia sibleyensis, 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- Gastropods of the Middle Devonian Anderdon Limestone3
- A Detroit River (Middle Devonian) Fauna from the Subsurface of Illinois1
Each of the 4 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 sibleyensis 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 sibleyensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Murchisonia sibleyensis 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. (Linsley 1968)