Colaniella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ColaniellidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
169 occurrences of Colaniella 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
169 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
14 formations
- Wujiaping Formation53
- Changxing Formation36
- Gyanyima Formation14
- Huai Tak Formation13
- Mikata Formation6
- Talung Formation6
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The named rock units Colaniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Colaniella and its relatives
PermianWhere Colaniella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
386 taxa- Hemigordius36 sites
- Nodosinelloides32 sites
- Reichelina27 sites
- Pachyphloia25 sites
- Palaeofusulina sinensis22 sites
- Agathammina21 sites
- Geinitzina20 sites
- Glomospira20 sites
- Palaeofusulina19 sites
- Palaeotextularia19 sites
- Cribrogenerina18 sites
- Climacammina17 sites
- Frondina17 sites
- Nodosaria17 sites
- Pachyphloia ovata17 sites
- Tetrataxis16 sites
- Nankinella15 sites
- Dagmarita14 sites
- Reichelina changhsingensis14 sites
- Frondicularia12 sites
- Reichelina cribroseptata12 sites
- Globivalvulina11 sites
- Globivalvulina bulloides10 sites
- Paraglobivalvulina8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 91 sites for Colaniella, 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
26 references- End-Permian mass extinction of foraminifers in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China53
- Yang et al., 198728
- End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: Evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet14
- On the Upper Permian Palaeofusulina-Colaniella fauna from Khao Doi Pha Phlung, north Thailand13
- The Khuff Formation (Middle East) and time-equivalents in Turkey and South China: biostratigraphy from Capitanian to Changhsingian times (Permian), new foraminiferal taxa, and palaeogeographical implications12
- The Wuchiapingian-Changhsingian boundary (Upper Permian) at Meishan of Changxing County, South China7
- A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China6
- Latest Permian (Changhsingian) foraminifers in the Mikata area, Hyogo - Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic foraminifers of Hyogo, Japan, Part 36
- Upper Permian fossils from island of Salamis, Greece4
- Permian Fusulinids (Foraminifera) of the Subsurface of Israel: Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy3
- The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic in Kashmir, India3
- Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of the Lopingian (Late Permian) coal measures in southwestern China2
Each of the 169 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. 14 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
Media content1
Picture of Colaniella
- 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 Colaniella 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 itColaniellidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.