Eostaffella

Eostaffella is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Eostaffellidae. Specimens of the genus have been found in Carboniferous to Permian beds in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Eostaffella

American Museum of Natural History · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
EostaffellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 142 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 132 of 142 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 142 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 142 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 5 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 6 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 6 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 6 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 6 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 23 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 21 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 20 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 19 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 9 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 1 occurrence279–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–272 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences339.9 Mya254.14 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

142 occurrences of Eostaffella 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

142 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

34 formations

Amsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 41.92°N, 107.34°WAmsden — 43.66°N, 109.60°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 42.40°N, 110.32°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WSiuransky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAkavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°ELucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WTsninskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EFoldedal — 80.64°N, 16.33°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EKap Jungersen — 80.64°N, 16.33°WSangalt — 39.37°N, 67.58°EDiamond Peak — 39.52°N, 115.60°WSafetdaron — 38.12°N, 70.31°ENarskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EDoulingshan — 24.45°N, 108.30°ELa Pasada — 35.67°N, 105.28°WLane — 53.55°N, 6.13°WAskynbashsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°ESmedvinskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EBangor Limestone — 34.45°N, 87.75°WLeete Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WLlanarmon Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WRoque Redonde — 43.53°N, 3.20°EHotwells — 51.22°N, 0.63°WLlandudno Pier Dolomite — 53.30°N, 3.80°W

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The named rock units Eostaffella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eostaffella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eostaffella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

546 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Eostaffella, 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

34 references

Each of the 142 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. 22 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 Eostaffella

Source
GBIF
Credit
American Museum of Natural History
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eostaffella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rauser-Chernousova 1948