Muscites

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BryopsidaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 18 of 27 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 27 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 8 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 4 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence173–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–610 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences227.3 Mya23.04 Mya246 Mya610 ka

27 occurrences of Muscites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

27 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

7 formations

Molteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.43°EMolteno — 31.47°S, 26.83°EMolteno — 31.52°S, 26.90°EMolteno — 30.00°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.93°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 31.53°S, 26.23°EMolteno — 30.48°S, 27.10°EMolteno — 30.68°S, 26.95°EMolteno — 31.50°S, 27.00°EMolteno — 31.52°S, 27.95°EKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WKachaike — 48.85°S, 72.15°WMolteno — 29.50°S, 27.50°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°EPotrerillos — 33.00°S, 69.10°WTalyndzhan Suite — 51.60°N, 133.30°EIchetuy Suite — 51.00°N, 105.30°E

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The named rock units Muscites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Muscites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Muscites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Muscites, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Muscites 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 Muscites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Muscites 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 itBryopsida through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828