Gandinella
No picture of Gandinella 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 Gandinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmmodiscidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ammodiscidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ammodiscidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Gandinella 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
7 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Gandinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gandinella and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Gandinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Duostominidae4 sites
- Agathammina austroalpina3 sites
- Auloconus3 sites
- Aulotortus3 sites
- Duotaxis3 sites
- Glomospirella3 sites
- Nodosariidae3 sites
- Ophthalmidium3 sites
- Trochamminidae3 sites
- Galeanella2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Miliolidae2 sites
- Planiinvoluta2 sites
- Retiophyllia clathrata2 sites
- Tetrataxis2 sites
- Triasina hantkeni2 sites
- Agathammina1 site
- Asterocalculus heraki1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa1 site
- Ataxophragmiidae1 site
- Aulotortus sinuosus pragsoides1 site
- Aulotortus sinuosus sinuosus1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gandinella, 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
5 references- Upper Triassic Tethyan Carbonates off Northwest Australia (Wombat Plateau, ODP Leg 122)3
- Norian calcareous Algae from the Matese Mountains (northern Campania, Italy)1
- Triassic palaeogeography of Tunisia1
- An Upper Triassic limestone pebble with "Spirigera" deslongchampsi Suess from the southern part of the western Carpathians, southern Slovakia1
- A New Triassic scleractinian coral from the High Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians, Czecho-Slovakia)1
Each of the 7 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 Gandinella 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 Gandinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gandinella 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 itAmmodiscidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.