Actuaria diffusa
No picture of Actuaria diffusa 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 Actuaria diffusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BairdiacyprisPBDB
- 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 most 7.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 266.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Actuaria diffusa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
2 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Actuaria diffusa 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.
Actuaria diffusa and its relatives
PermianWhere Actuaria diffusa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Acentrophorus varians1 site
- Acratia1 site
- Alula1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Bairdia beedei1 site
- Bairdiacypris1 site
- Basslerella1 site
- Cavellina1 site
- Cavellina edmistonae1 site
- Cavellina ellipticalis1 site
- Falalicypris crepidalis1 site
- Fascianella1 site
- Geinitzina1 site
- Healdia1 site
- Healdia simplex1 site
- Healdianella1 site
- Kirkbya1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lingula credneri1 site
- Moorea1 site
- Nodosaria1 site
- Orthobairdia ponderosa1 site
- Orthovertella1 site
- Platysomus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Actuaria diffusa, 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- Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian1
- Ostracoda1
Each of the 2 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 Actuaria diffusa 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 Actuaria diffusa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actuaria diffusa 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBairdiacypris through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schneider 1956