Fourstonella

No picture of Fourstonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fourstonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AoujgaliaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 26 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 31 occurrencesPermian348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 2 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 4 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 8 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 8 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–326 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–273 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences335.9 Mya283.3 Mya348 Mya273 Mya

31 occurrences of Fourstonella 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

31 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

9 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WSafetdara — 38.76°N, 70.89°EBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WSt. Louis — 41.33°N, 92.17°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EGlencar Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WDartry Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WValdeteja — 43.35°N, 4.77°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°W

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

Fourstonella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Fourstonella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Fourstonella, 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

7 references

Each of the 31 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 content0

No picture of Fourstonella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fourstonella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itAoujgaliaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cummings 1955