Amphissella
No picture of Amphissella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphissella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlacideidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
3 occurrences of Amphissella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amphissella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphissella and its relatives
DevonianWhere Amphissella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Hollinella3 sites
- Kirkbyella3 sites
- Octonaria3 sites
- Paraschmidtella3 sites
- Tubulibairdia3 sites
- Adelphobolbina2 sites
- Amphizona2 sites
- Bairdia2 sites
- Birdsallella2 sites
- Birdsallella devonica2 sites
- Bollia2 sites
- Bufina2 sites
- Bythocypris2 sites
- Coelonella scapha2 sites
- Cryptophyllus arsinius2 sites
- Ctenoloculina cicatricosa2 sites
- Ctenoloculina eurybathrota2 sites
- Doraclatum2 sites
- Euglyphella2 sites
- Eukloedenella2 sites
- Hanaites platus2 sites
- Healdia arkonensis2 sites
- Hibbardia lacrimosa2 sites
- Jenningsina catenulata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amphissella, 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- Ostracoda from the Windom Shale (Hamilton) of Western New York2
- Hunton Group of the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma:1
Each of the 3 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
Media content0
No picture of Amphissella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphissella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphissella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itPlacideidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover 1956