Fusulina secalica
No picture of Fusulina secalica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Fusulina secalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FusulinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Fusulina secalica 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Pottawatomie Formation4
- Douglas Formation3
- Glenshaw Formation · Conemaugh Group1
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The named rock units Fusulina secalica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fusulina secalica and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Fusulina secalica and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
194 taxa- Neospirifer cameratus8 sites
- Aviculopecten occidentalis6 sites
- Composita argentea6 sites
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus6 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus6 sites
- Linoproductus cora6 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis6 sites
- Pustula pertenuis6 sites
- Septopora biserialis6 sites
- Archaeocidaris5 sites
- Echinoconchus punctatus5 sites
- Gastropoda5 sites
- Parajuresania nebrascensis5 sites
- Penniretepora5 sites
- Acanthopecten carboniferous4 sites
- Chonetes vernenilanus4 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa4 sites
- Derbya keokuk4 sites
- Fenestella limbata4 sites
- Fistulipora nodulifera4 sites
- Griffithides scitula4 sites
- Hustedia mormoni4 sites
- Lophophyllidium profundum4 sites
- Meekella striatocostata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Fusulina secalica, 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 referencesEach of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Fusulina secalica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Fusulina secalica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fusulina secalica was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itFusulina through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morningstar 1922