Dunbarinella
Searched as Dunbarinella gregaria inconstans. The Paleobiology Database treats Dunbarinella as the accepted name.
No picture of Dunbarinella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dunbarinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChusenellinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Dunbarinella 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Dunbarinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dunbarinella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Dunbarinella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
229 taxa- Triticites7 sites
- Schubertella5 sites
- Pseudofusulina4 sites
- Benshiella stabilis3 sites
- Marginifera3 sites
- Triticites fornicatus3 sites
- Agathammina2 sites
- Archimedes2 sites
- Bellerophontoidea2 sites
- Climacammina2 sites
- Colospongia2 sites
- Connexia2 sites
- Cribrogenerina2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Daixina (Bosbytauella) bosbytauensis2 sites
- Derbyia2 sites
- Derbyia crassa2 sites
- Dunbarula nana2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Euconospira2 sites
- Fenestella2 sites
- Globivalvulina2 sites
- Glomospira2 sites
- Kahlerina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Dunbarinella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dunbarinella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dunbarinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dunbarinella 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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What may have been alongside itChusenellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.