Lepidolina

Lepidolina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 19 of 19 occurrencesPermian264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264.8 Mya259.4 Mya

19 occurrences of Lepidolina on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

19 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

3 formations

Yokoyama — 35.21°N, 134.63°EYasumoto — 34.85°N, 133.25°EKhao Taa Ngog — 13.64°N, 102.11°E

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The named rock units Lepidolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepidolina and its relatives

Permian

Where Lepidolina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lepidolina, 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

4 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Lepidolina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lepidolina 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 itLepidolininae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lee 1933