Frondicularia lignaria
No picture of Frondicularia lignaria 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 Frondicularia lignaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FrondiculariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 6.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 168.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Frondicularia lignaria on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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 Frondicularia lignaria 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.
Frondicularia lignaria and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Frondicularia lignaria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Achistrum monochordata1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Astacolus1 site
- Calclamna1 site
- Calcligula jurassica1 site
- Cristellaria (Hemicristellaria)1 site
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)1 site
- Cristellaria subalata1 site
- Dentalina1 site
- Eocaudina1 site
- Eoguttulina1 site
- Hemisphaeranthos1 site
- Involutina1 site
- Lagena1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Lenticulina munsteri1 site
- Lenticulina varians1 site
- Lingulina1 site
- Lituola1 site
- Massilina1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Priscopedatus exlineae1 site
- Priscopedatus frizzelli1 site
- Proteonina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Frondicularia lignaria, 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
2 references- Palaeoclimatic and biotic changes during the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) at the southern Laurasian Seaway (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, northern Spain)3
- Jurassic Microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt1
Each of the 4 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 Frondicularia lignaria 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 Frondicularia lignaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Frondicularia lignaria was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFrondicularia through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Terquem 1866