Beedeina
Beedeina is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Fusulinidae. These have been found in rock strata from the Moscovian Stage.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BeedeininaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At least 5.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 307 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
69 occurrences of Beedeina 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
69 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
13 formations
- Meledis Formation7
- Demirkazik Formation4
- Wordiekammen Formation4
- Foldedal Formation4
- La Pasada Formation3
- Kap Jungersen Formation3
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The named rock units Beedeina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Beedeina and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Beedeina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Wedekindellina12 sites
- Eostaffella7 sites
- Fusulinella7 sites
- Neostaffella6 sites
- Tetrataxis6 sites
- Tuberitina6 sites
- Crinoidea5 sites
- Endothyra5 sites
- Ostracoda5 sites
- Ozawainella5 sites
- Bradyina4 sites
- Bradyina magna4 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Echinoidea4 sites
- Fusulinella (Fusulinella) bocki4 sites
- Gastropoda4 sites
- Globivalvulina bulloides4 sites
- Ozawainella mosquensis4 sites
- Pseudostaffella4 sites
- Wedekindellina henbesti4 sites
- Calcivertella3 sites
- Climacammina3 sites
- Frumentella3 sites
- Frumentella stewarti3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Beedeina, 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
14 references- Pennsylvanian-Permian Fusulinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico32
- Fusulinid zonation of the Upper Carboniferous Kap Jungersen and Foldedal Formations, southern Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland7
- Fusulinid assemblages and facies of the Bombaso Fm. and basal Meledis Fm. (Moscovian-Kasimovian) in the central Carnic alps (Austria/Italy)7
- Systematics and biostratigraphic notes of the upper Moscovian-upper Gzhelian fusulinid foraminifers from the Anatolian Platform in the Southern Turkey4
- Fusulinid Succession from the Middle-Upper Carboniferous Boundary Beds on Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway4
- History of a Late Carboniferous phylloid algal bank complex in northeastern New Mexico.3
- The Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) Izvarino Section, Donets Basin, Ukraine: a multidisciplinary study on microfacies, biostratigraphy (conodonts, foraminifers, and ostracodes), and paleoecology2
- Biostratigraphy and systematics of Upper Carboniferous cerioid rugose corals, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada2
- Middle Carboniferous foraminifers from Ban Sup, Changwat Loei, northeastern Thailand2
- Early Pennsylvanian fusulinids and ostracods of the Illinois Basin. Part 1: Primitive fusulinids in the southern part of the Illinois Basin2
- Facies and fauna of the Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry deposit: a review and new data on an important Palaeozoic fossil Lagerstätte with aragonite preservation1
- Gzhelian fusulinids first discovered in central Iran1
Each of the 69 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. 2 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 Beedeina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Beedeina 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Beedeina”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBeedeininae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.