Valvulinella

No picture of Valvulinella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Valvulinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ValvulinellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 339.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 32 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 31 of 32 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 32 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 32 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 1 occurrence346–342 Mya — about 7 occurrences342–339 Mya — about 7 occurrences339–335 Mya — about 7 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 5 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 2 occurrences328–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences339.9 Mya254.14 Mya361 Mya250 Mya

32 occurrences of Valvulinella 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

32 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

11 formations

Lucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WLucan — 53.63°N, 6.73°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WLane — 53.55°N, 6.13°WLane — 53.58°N, 6.33°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°WLlandudno Pier Dolomite — 53.30°N, 3.80°WGlencar Limestone — 54.25°N, 8.15°WLimerick Limestone — 52.65°N, 8.95°WTober Colleen — 53.63°N, 6.73°WChangxing — 29.71°N, 113.93°EBowland Shale — 54.05°N, 2.02°W

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The named rock units Valvulinella 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.

Valvulinella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Valvulinella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

168 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Valvulinella, 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

9 references

Each of the 32 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. 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 content0

No picture of Valvulinella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Valvulinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Valvulinella 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 itValvulinellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schubert 1907