Albertella
Searched as Albertella pirabensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Albertella as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- ZacanthoididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Corynexochida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Corynexochida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Zacanthoididae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Albertella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Albertella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Albertella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Albertella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Mexicella mexicana23 sites
- Volocephalina connexa15 sites
- Plagiura minor11 sites
- Mexicella stator9 sites
- Poliella leipalox7 sites
- Acrothele6 sites
- Ptarmiganoides6 sites
- Alokistocare alta5 sites
- Palmerara granosa5 sites
- Poliella germana5 sites
- Ptarmiganoides hexacantha5 sites
- Bathyuriscus4 sites
- Hyolithes4 sites
- Micromitra4 sites
- Pagetia clytia4 sites
- Pagetia resseri4 sites
- Poliella denticulata4 sites
- Vanuxemella4 sites
- Wimanella4 sites
- Albertellina aspinosa3 sites
- Albertelloides kitai3 sites
- Alokistocare3 sites
- Eobathyuriscus mackenziensis3 sites
- Glossopleura3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Albertella, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Albertella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Albertella 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 itZacanthoididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1908