Parafusulina japonica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParafusulinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 31 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
74 occurrences of Parafusulina japonica 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
74 occurrences- Permian100%
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
5 formations
- Akasaka Formation41
- Nabeyama Formation23
- Kamiyozawa Formation5
- Yagihawa limestone Formation1
- Shaksgam Formation1
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The named rock units Parafusulina japonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parafusulina japonica and its relatives
PermianWhere Parafusulina japonica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Dunbarula oviformis38 sites
- Pseudodoliolina ozawai28 sites
- Neoschwagerina craticulifera23 sites
- Armenina akasakensis12 sites
- Codonofusiella ashioensis12 sites
- Dunbarula12 sites
- Climacammina valvulinoides9 sites
- Codonofusiella nabeyamensis9 sites
- Parafusulina kinosakii8 sites
- Parafusulina tochigiensis8 sites
- Rauserella ellipsoidalis8 sites
- Tetrataxis8 sites
- Globivalvulina7 sites
- Neofusulinella phairayensis7 sites
- Yangchienia7 sites
- Gifuella amicula6 sites
- Nankinella6 sites
- Neoschwagerina colaniae6 sites
- Pseudodoliolina oliviformis6 sites
- Rauserella6 sites
- Verbeekina verbeeki6 sites
- Yangchienia compressa6 sites
- Chusenella atlinensis5 sites
- Dunbarula cascadensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Parafusulina japonica, 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
7 references- Permian fusuline faunas and biostratigraphy of the Akasaka Limestone (Japan)41
- Middle Permian foraminifers of the Izuru and Nabeyama Formations in the Kuzu area, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan Part 1. Schwagerinid, neoschwagerinid, and verbeekinid fusulinoideans23
- Permian foraminifers from the Itsukaichi-Ome area, west Tokyo, Japan5
- Permian and Triassic exotic blocks of the Crimea2
- Permian fossils of the Shaksgam Valley1
- Mansuy, 19081
- On a Fusulina-Limestone with Helicoprion in Japan1
Each of the 74 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
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No picture of Parafusulina japonica 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 Parafusulina japonica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parafusulina japonica 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 itParafusulina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guembel 1874)