Arasella minuta

Arasella minuta

Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)… · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
ArasellaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ceratitida
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ceratitida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ceratitida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Arasella minuta 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

11 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

4 formations

Ali Bashi — 38.94°N, 45.52°EAli Bashi — 39.01°N, 45.43°EHambast — 31.57°N, 52.44°EAkhura — 39.54°N, 45.43°EAkhura — 39.84°N, 45.05°EAkhura — 39.56°N, 45.21°E

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The named rock units Arasella minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Arasella minuta and its relatives

Permian

Where Arasella minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Arasella minuta, 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

3 references

Each of the 11 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Arasella minuta

Credit
Korn, D., Hairapetian, V., Ghaderi, A., Leda, L., Schobben, M., & Akbari, A. (2021). The Changhsingian (Late Permian)…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itArasella through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zakharov 1983)