Stacheia

Stacheia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AoujgaliaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 134 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 351.9 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 56 of 68 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 12 of 68 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 68 occurrences355–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–344 Mya — about 8 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 16 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 12 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 16 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–318 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–298 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 6 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 6 occurrences339.9 Mya205.7 Mya355 Mya198 Mya

68 occurrences of Stacheia 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

68 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

14 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WWestbury — 51.22°N, 2.82°WMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WEdwardsville — 39.50°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WAmsden — 42.81°N, 110.79°WKebir — 30.95°N, 1.57°WSierra del Castillo — 38.15°N, 5.00°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EDartry Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WJohns Valley — 34.17°N, 97.15°WPendleside Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WLeaning Rock — 36.33°N, 116.51°W

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The named rock units Stacheia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stacheia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Stacheia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

477 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 52 sites for Stacheia, 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

14 references

Each of the 68 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. 2 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 Stacheia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stacheia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAoujgaliaceae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1876