Aaleniella

No picture of Aaleniella 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 Aaleniella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtocytheridaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 182.9 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 9 of 12 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous184–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–178 Mya — about 3 occurrences178–175 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–171 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences174.7 Mya121.4 Mya184 Mya118 Mya

12 occurrences of Aaleniella on record. 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

12 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

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Aaleniella 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

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Aaleniella, 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 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Aaleniella 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 Aaleniella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aaleniella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plumhoff 1963