Tabellaria

Tabellaria is a genus of freshwater diatoms. They are cuboid in shape, and the frustules are attached at the corners so that the colonies assume a zigzag shape.

Tabellaria

Kairi Maileht · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TabellariaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–274 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.333 Mya1.8 Mya23.5 Mya274 ka

4 occurrences of Tabellaria on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

1 formation

Latah — 47.56°N, 117.22°W

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The named rock units Tabellaria 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.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tabellaria, 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

Each of the 4 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

Media content1

Picture of Tabellaria

Credit
Kairi Maileht
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tabellaria 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTabellariaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mann et al. 1990