Pseudofusulina
Searched as Pseudofusulina chihsiaensis regularis. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudofusulina as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudofusulininaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 2.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pseudofusulina 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pseudofusulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudofusulina and its relatives
PermianWhere Pseudofusulina and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
586 taxa- Schubertella34 sites
- Boultonia17 sites
- Rugosofusulina complicata15 sites
- Quasifusulina cayeuxi14 sites
- Chusenella13 sites
- Triticites fornicatus13 sites
- Benshiella stabilis12 sites
- Quasifusulina12 sites
- Staffella12 sites
- Dutkevitchia devexa11 sites
- Ozawainella11 sites
- Quasifusulina tenuissima11 sites
- Schubertella australis11 sites
- Rugosofusulina10 sites
- Schubertella kingi10 sites
- Schwagerina10 sites
- Dutkevitchia ruzhenzevi9 sites
- Nonpseudofusulina karapetovi8 sites
- Ogbinia dzhagrensis8 sites
- Paraschwagerina8 sites
- Sphaeroschwagerina sphaerica8 sites
- Boultonia cheni7 sites
- Climacammina7 sites
- Globivalvulina7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 290 sites for Pseudofusulina, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Pseudofusulina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudofusulina 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 itPseudofusulininae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Skinner 1931