Fusulinella

Fusulinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FusulinellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 123 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 121 of 123 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 123 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–344 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–317 Mya — about 3 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 8 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 29 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 27 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 27 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 12 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 4 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences323.4 Mya293.52 Mya360 Mya289 Mya

123 occurrences of Fusulinella 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

123 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

25 formations

Wordiekammen — 78.64°N, 15.03°EPottsville — 40.00°N, 82.01°WPottsville — 38.83°N, 84.10°WPottsville — 40.06°N, 81.98°WWeining — 25.51°N, 106.23°EDemirkazik — 38.13°N, 35.40°EDemirkazik — 37.31°N, 31.73°EFoldedal — 80.64°N, 16.33°WCanyon Fiord — 78.40°N, 85.42°WCanyon Fiord — 78.26°N, 85.22°WCanyon Fiord — 78.61°N, 84.52°WWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°ELa Joya — 29.37°N, 109.88°WKap Jungersen — 80.64°N, 16.33°WPassage Beds — 78.49°N, 16.79°ETradewater — 37.61°N, 88.51°WTradewater — 37.40°N, 87.80°WTradewater — 37.60°N, 88.11°WMeledis — 46.60°N, 13.08°ENordenskioldbreen — 78.64°N, 15.03°ECuchillo Negro — 32.78°N, 107.27°WFra Cristobal — 32.78°N, 107.27°WMaping — 25.57°N, 106.13°ENansen — 81.28°N, 85.97°WSaginaw Bay — 56.92°N, 134.16°WSardar — 33.20°N, 53.92°EAkiyoshi — 34.19°N, 131.27°EVanport — 40.99°N, 80.33°WAzigan — 37.50°N, 76.83°ENarskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EPottsville? — 40.00°N, 82.00°W

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The named rock units Fusulinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Fusulinella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Fusulinella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Fusulinella, 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

29 references

Each of the 123 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. 17 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 Fusulinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Fusulinella 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 itFusulinellinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moeller 1878)