Priscella
No picture of Priscella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Priscella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EndothyridaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 342.9 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Priscella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Priscella 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.
Priscella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Priscella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Earlandia6 sites
- Endothyra4 sites
- Tetrataxis4 sites
- Canadiphyllum3 sites
- Eoendothyranopsis3 sites
- Globoendothyra3 sites
- Pleurosiphonella3 sites
- Siphonodendron3 sites
- Endothyra bowmani2 sites
- Pseudoammodiscus2 sites
- <spiriferid>1 site
- Acrocyathus1 site
- archaediscids indet.1 site
- Asphaltinella sp.1 site
- Aviculopecten1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Bucanopsis1 site
- Calcisphaera laevis1 site
- Cladochonus1 site
- Cleiothyridina1 site
- Clinopistha1 site
- Composita trinuclea1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Priscella, 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
2 references- Coralliferous carbonate shelves of Mississippian age, west side of Antler Orogen, central Nevada5
- Stratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Mississippian strata in Keokuk and Washington Counties, southeast Iowa1
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Priscella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Priscella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEndothyridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.