Basslerella obesa

Basslerella obesa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BasslerellaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Cytherideidae

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 23 of 24 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 5 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences298.9 Mya254.14 Mya305 Mya251 Mya

24 occurrences of Basslerella obesa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

24 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

Qixia — 26.09°N, 117.83°EQixia — 31.95°N, 119.16°EChangxing — 25.73°N, 117.74°EChangxing — 31.79°N, 104.58°EChangxing — 31.59°N, 104.32°EChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WWakarusa — 38.94°N, 95.72°W

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The named rock units Basslerella obesa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Basslerella obesa and its relatives

Permian

Where Basslerella obesa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

155 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Basslerella obesa, 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 24 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 content1

Picture of Basslerella obesa

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBasslerella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kellett 1935