Textularia

Searched as Textularia virgilensi. The Paleobiology Database treats Textularia as the accepted name.

Textularia is a genus of textulariid foraminiferans. It includes many vagile inbenthic species of normal salinity seawater.

Textularia

Uncredited · Public Domain · 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
TextulariidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At most 6.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313.3 Mya305.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Textularia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

1 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

Lost Branch — 39.03°N, 94.80°W

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The named rock units Textularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Textularia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Textularia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2,529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 941 sites for Textularia, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Textularia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Textularia hockleyensis panamensis · AMNH:FI:64122

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itTextulariidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Defrance 1824