Muriferella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MonelasmiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Draboviidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 19 million years on record.
The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya.
25 occurrences of Muriferella 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
25 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
13 formations
- Nandan Formation3
- Road River Formation3
- Garra Formation2
- Stuart Bay Formation2
- Prongs Creek Formation2
- Zlichov Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Muriferella 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.
Muriferella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Muriferella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
499 taxa- Dalejina12 sites
- Skenidioides12 sites
- Cyrtina11 sites
- Schizophoria11 sites
- Reticulariopsis10 sites
- Gypidula9 sites
- Aesopomum8 sites
- Ambocoelia8 sites
- Dolerorthis8 sites
- Glassia8 sites
- Howellella8 sites
- Nucleospira8 sites
- Phragmostrophia8 sites
- Atrypa7 sites
- Leptagonia7 sites
- Mesodouvillina7 sites
- Protocortezorthis7 sites
- Chonetes6 sites
- Drahanostrophia6 sites
- Biconostrophia5 sites
- Cortezorthis5 sites
- Cymostrophia (Cymostrophia) stephani5 sites
- Leptostrophia5 sites
- Nowakia5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Muriferella, 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
15 references- Brachiopods from the Tangxiang Formation (Devonian) in Nandan of Guangxi3
- Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopods of Royal Creek, Yukon Canada. Part 1. Orthoida, Strophomenida, Pentamerida, Rhynchonellida3
- Wenlockian to Pragian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera2
- Brachiopods and their relation to facies development in the lower and Middle Devonian of Nandan, Guangxi, South China2
- The Bohemian Lower Devonian Stages2
- Late Early Devonian reef associated brachiopods of the Prongs Creek Formation, northern Yukon2
- Yukon Territory2
- Silurian-Middle Devonian2
- The Garra Formation (Early Devonian: Late Lochkovian) between Cumnock and Larras Lee, New South Wales, Australia: stratigraphic and structural setting, faunas, and community sequence1
- Brachiopods of the Garra Formation (Lower Devonian), Wellington area, New South Wales, Australia: Orthida, Strophomenida, Pentamerida1
- Lower Devonian brachiopod communities of the northern Canadian Cordillera1
- Devonian brachiopods from the Quadrithyris Zone (Upper Lochkovian), Canadian arctic archipelago1
Each of the 25 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Muriferella 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 Muriferella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Muriferella 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 itMonelasmiinae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.