Earlandinita

A picture published with the record for Earlandinita. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EarlandinitidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 19 of 34 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 34 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 34 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 34 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 8 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 8 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 6 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences235–232 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306 Mya237 Mya314 Mya232 Mya

34 occurrences of Earlandinita 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

34 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

11 formations

Wewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°ESchlern 1 — 46.47°N, 13.33°EWetterstein — 48.47°N, 20.53°ERecoaro - Upper Serla — 46.75°N, 11.97°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°EWetterstein Limestone — 48.00°N, 20.00°ESchlern — 46.47°N, 13.33°ELatemar Limestone — 46.43°N, 11.85°EKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°EMuschelkalk — 50.53°N, 18.28°E

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The named rock units Earlandinita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Earlandinita and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Earlandinita and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

368 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Earlandinita, 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

11 references

Each of the 34 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 Earlandinita

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itEarlandinitidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.