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Morania ✝
| Description | Morania is a genus of cyanobacterium preserved as carbonaceous films in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. it is present throughout the shale; 2580 specimens of Morania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 4.90% of the community. It is filamentous, forms sheets, and resembles the modern cyanobacterium Nostoc. It would have had a role in binding the sediment, and would have been a food source for such organisms as Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morania, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : Morania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Murchisoniina : Murchisoniidae : Morania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Scientific Name | Morania Horný, 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Sborn. Geol. Úst. Csl., 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 433 - 431 Ma Silurian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 427 - 419 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | facultatively mobile (based on Murchisoniidae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Murchisoniidae) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. J. Horný. 1953. New gastropods from the Silurian of Central Bohemia. Sbornik Ustredního Ústavuu Geologického 20:189-211 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morania |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Hormotoma griffithi ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Loxonema attenuatum ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 433 Ma Silurian | 433 Ma Silurian | |
| Morania boltoni ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Morania declivis ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 427 Ma Silurian | 427 Ma Silurian | |
| Morania nixonforkensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 427 Ma Silurian | 427 Ma Silurian | |
| Morania vsinuata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 427 Ma Silurian | 427 Ma Silurian | |
| Morania wagneri ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 427 Ma Silurian | 427 Ma Silurian | |
| Murchisonia altevittata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Murchisonia declivis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Murchisonia paradoxa ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 427 Ma Silurian | 427 Ma Silurian | |
Obsolete Names
| Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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| Wenziella Frýda, 1998 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pleurotomariida : Murchisoniidae : Wenziella |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1953 | Morania Horný |
| 1975 | Morania Peel |
| 1998 | Wenziella Frýda |
| 2002 | Morania Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2017 | Morania Wagner p. G343 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
