Pseudostaffella

Pseudostaffella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 303.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 72 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 72 of 72 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 72 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358–356 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences356–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–352 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences352–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences339–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 6 occurrences321–318 Mya — about 6 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 6 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 7 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 13 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 12 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 10 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 6 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences315.2 Mya303.7 Mya360 Mya298 Mya

72 occurrences of Pseudostaffella 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

72 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

25 formations

Akavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAskynbashsky — 57.33°N, 59.26°EAskynbashsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EWeining — 25.51°N, 106.23°EPassage Beds — 78.49°N, 16.79°ECanyon Fiord — 78.26°N, 85.22°WCanyon Fiord — 78.61°N, 84.52°WCanyon Fiord — 78.36°N, 85.38°WWhiskey Canyon Limestone — 33.20°N, 107.32°WTashastinsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°ESmedvinskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°ENarskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°ETsninskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EFra Cristobal — 32.78°N, 107.27°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WLa Pasada — 35.67°N, 105.28°WSama — 43.30°N, 5.68°WLa Joya — 29.37°N, 109.88°WMaping — 25.57°N, 106.13°EHare Fiord — 80.83°N, 85.05°WSardar — 33.20°N, 53.92°ENansen — 81.91°N, 79.40°WOtto Fiord — 81.95°N, 79.20°WWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°EDjebel Ouarkziz — 28.36°N, 9.48°WHuanglong — 29.92°N, 119.53°E

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The named rock units Pseudostaffella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudostaffella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Pseudostaffella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

278 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Pseudostaffella, 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

24 references

Each of the 72 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. 12 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 Pseudostaffella

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 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 itPseudostaffellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thompson 1942