Fontinella

A picture published with the record for Fontinella. 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
SpumellariaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 129 of 130 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 130 occurrencesEarly Jurassic228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 28 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 28 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 28 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 28 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 13 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205.7 Mya201.4 Mya227.9 Mya198.9 Mya

130 occurrences of Fontinella on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

130 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

2 formations

Sandilands — 52.77°N, 131.56°WSandilands — 53.91°N, 133.16°WSandilands — 53.03°N, 131.88°WKayabuku — 40.38°N, 40.67°E

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

Fontinella and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Fontinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Fontinella, 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

3 references

Each of the 130 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 Fontinella

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 itSpumellaria through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1993