Beresellaceae

Beresellaceae is an extinct family of organisms of uncertain affinity, sometimes placed within the Metazoa, but tentatively assigned to the green alga order Dasycladales. Beresellids were cosmopolitan and their fossils are found in strata ranging in age from the late Devonian to the early Permian.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 127 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 46 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 12 of 46 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 32 of 46 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 46 occurrences436–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–383 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences383–378 Mya — about 4 occurrences378–373 Mya — about 4 occurrences373–368 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 2 occurrences339–334 Mya — about 6 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 7 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–291 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426.7 Mya298.9 Mya436 Mya291 Mya

46 occurrences of Beresellaceae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

46 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

25 formations

Macocha — 49.23°N, 16.76°EAzigan — 37.50°N, 76.83°EUrswick Limestone — 54.12°N, 2.77°WMullaghfin — 53.90°N, 6.73°WCuera Limestone — 43.45°N, 4.92°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WWang Suphung — 17.50°N, 101.77°EIhmert — 51.30°N, 7.74°EManchap — 31.60°N, 78.75°ELisen — 49.23°N, 16.76°EÇatalçeşme — 40.17°N, 39.92°EAkatievo — 55.38°N, 37.53°ESouverain-Pré — 50.61°N, 5.95°ELa Joya — 29.37°N, 109.88°WPicos de Europa — 43.13°N, 4.85°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EMaping — 25.57°N, 106.13°EHolmpatrick — 53.57°N, 6.13°WTagnana — 31.60°N, 2.22°WOued el Hamar — 31.60°N, 2.22°WOued bel Groun — 31.60°N, 2.22°WOtto Fiord — 80.91°N, 84.25°WBelcher Channel — 76.94°N, 95.38°WNarskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°E

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The named rock units Beresellaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Beresellaceae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Beresellaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Beresellaceae, 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

24 references

Each of the 46 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. 12 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Beresellaceae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itDasycladales through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deloffre 1988