Palaeofusulina

Palaeofusulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 170 of 170 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 170 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 22 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 22 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 22 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 22 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 22 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 22 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 22 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 7 occurrences260.4 Mya251.4 Mya

170 occurrences of Palaeofusulina 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

170 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

12 formations

Changxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°EChangxing — 22.42°N, 107.70°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°EChangxing — 30.92°N, 119.99°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EChangxing — 26.33°N, 105.93°EChangxing — 30.30°N, 106.85°EChangxing — 30.49°N, 107.00°EChangxing — 30.13°N, 106.45°EChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EChangxing — 26.50°N, 105.58°EMikata — 35.19°N, 134.63°ETalung — 23.70°N, 109.32°EWujiaping — 32.62°N, 105.86°EWujiaping — 25.57°N, 106.67°EHuai Tak — 18.73°N, 99.88°EDalong — 26.03°N, 105.10°EWerfen — 46.38°N, 11.85°EWerfen — 46.57°N, 11.63°EHeshan — 23.77°N, 108.86°EChanghsing — 27.75°N, 100.66°EChangxing Limestone — 31.10°N, 119.73°ENayixiong — 33.98°N, 91.05°EWuchiaping — 23.40°N, 106.00°E

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The named rock units Palaeofusulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeofusulina and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeofusulina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Palaeofusulina, 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

25 references

Each of the 170 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. 13 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 Palaeofusulina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Palaeofusulina 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 itBoultoniidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.