Parafusulina splendens
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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 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Parafusulina splendens 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Parafusulina splendens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Parafusulina splendens and its relatives
PermianWhere Parafusulina splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Afghanella1 site
- Laxifusulina neimongolensis1 site
- Misellina (Misellina) claudiae1 site
- Nankinella1 site
- Neoschwagerina craticulifera1 site
- Neoschwagerina haydeni1 site
- Parafusulina bakeri1 site
- Parafusulina boesei1 site
- Parafusulina cf. shaksgamensis crassimarginata1 site
- Presumatrina1 site
- Pseudodoliolina oliviformis1 site
- Russiella1 site
- Schwagerina menziesi1 site
- Sumatrina1 site
- Verbeekina1 site
- Yangchienia1 site
- Yangchienia compressa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parafusulina splendens, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian2
- The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, southeastern California: fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. 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 splendens 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 splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Parafusulina splendens 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. Dunbar and Skinner 1937