Myriotrochites operculum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MyriotrochitesPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holothuroidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 106 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEocene164–160 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154.8 Mya48.07 Mya164 Mya39 Mya

2 occurrences of Myriotrochites operculum on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

2 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.

Myriotrochites operculum and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Myriotrochites operculum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Myriotrochites operculum, 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

Each of the 2 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 Myriotrochites operculum 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 Myriotrochites operculum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Myriotrochites operculum 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 itMyriotrochites through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlumberger 1890)