Palaeosmilia murchisoni

Palaeosmilia murchisoni

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeosmiliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 59 of 59 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 1 occurrence345–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–343 Mya — about 1 occurrence343–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–340 Mya — about 2 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 6 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 6 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 6 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 5 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 4 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 4 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 4 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 3 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 2 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 1 occurrence323–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339.9 Mya323.4 Mya347.3 Mya314.6 Mya

59 occurrences of Palaeosmilia murchisoni on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

59 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

31 formations

Idmarrach — 33.53°N, 5.39°WIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.23°WYamansu — 41.90°N, 93.77°EKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.36°N, 2.06°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.37°N, 2.00°WKoudiat Es-Senn — 34.30°N, 2.06°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.32°N, 3.42°WMoel Hiraddug Limestone — 53.42°N, 3.00°WWaterhouses Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.87°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WMaydown Limestone — 54.42°N, 6.73°WClogrenan — 52.68°N, 7.02°WTizra — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirhela — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTirhela — 33.44°N, 5.23°WChee Tor Limestone — 53.25°N, 1.78°WMilldale Limestone — 53.25°N, 1.78°WSpring Quarry Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WLlanarmon Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WCarboniferous Limestone — 53.10°N, 1.57°WFoel — 53.63°N, 2.70°WDyserth Quarry Limestone — 53.70°N, 2.67°WIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°EMiddle Limestone V — 54.30°N, 2.15°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EKnipe Scar Limestone — 54.47°N, 2.35°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WBallyadams — 52.83°N, 6.92°WAkerchi — 33.53°N, 5.39°WTabainout — 32.97°N, 5.82°W

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The named rock units Palaeosmilia murchisoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeosmilia murchisoni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeosmilia murchisoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

341 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Palaeosmilia murchisoni, 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

29 references

Each of the 59 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. 17 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

Media content1

Picture of Palaeosmilia murchisoni

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeosmilia murchisoni 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848