Aciculella

No picture of Aciculella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aciculella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 175 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences251–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences218–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences211–204 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya66 Mya251 Mya52 Mya

6 occurrences of Aciculella 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

6 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

4 formations

Nayband — 32.93°N, 52.03°EGrès de Kirchaou — 33.02°N, 10.78°ESteinalm — 47.40°N, 11.42°EKambuhel — 48.79°N, 17.51°E

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The named rock units Aciculella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aciculella and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Aciculella, 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

6 references

Each of the 6 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 Aciculella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aciculella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aciculella 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.

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What may have been alongside itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1927