Earlandia

Earlandia was a genus of prehistoric foraminifera.

Earlandia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EarlandiidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 298 million years on record.

The record covers at least 431.2 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 433.5 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 209 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 209 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 97 of 209 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 20 of 209 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 26 of 209 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 30 of 209 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 9 of 209 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 209 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 209 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 209 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 23 of 209 occurrences440–429 Mya — about 1 occurrence418–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–397 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences386–376 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences376–365 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences365–354 Mya — about 3 occurrences354–344 Mya — about 11 occurrences344–333 Mya — about 30 occurrences333–322 Mya — about 18 occurrences322–312 Mya — about 33 occurrences312–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–290 Mya — about 1 occurrence290–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–258 Mya — about 5 occurrences258–248 Mya — about 38 occurrences248–237 Mya — about 33 occurrences237–226 Mya — about 2 occurrences226–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–205 Mya — about 4 occurrences205–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–141 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences141–130 Mya — about 19 occurrences130–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences431.2 Mya132.6 Mya440 Mya120 Mya

209 occurrences of Earlandia 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

209 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

56 formations

Polat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ESiuransky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.92°N, 107.34°WAmsden — 43.66°N, 109.60°WAmsden — 43.51°N, 107.46°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 42.87°N, 110.79°WCsopak Marl — 46.88°N, 17.61°EDaye — 25.57°N, 106.67°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°ELane — 53.55°N, 6.13°WLane — 53.58°N, 6.33°WTashastinsky — 54.30°N, 57.00°ESecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EGerennavar Limestone — 48.08°N, 20.45°EDiamond Peak — 39.52°N, 115.60°WHolmpatrick — 53.58°N, 6.22°WHolmpatrick — 53.57°N, 6.40°WHolmpatrick — 53.57°N, 6.13°WArpa — 39.60°N, 45.15°EKaradagtepe — 41.91°N, 33.72°EAkavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 26.15°N, 105.29°EEdzhid — 65.07°N, 56.69°EBahcecik — 40.00°N, 33.18°ELlandudno Pier Dolomite — 53.30°N, 3.80°WArdengost — 42.93°N, 0.40°EBricklieve Limestone — 54.05°N, 8.37°WBricklieve Limestone — 54.10°N, 8.25°WKorytnica Limestones — 48.94°N, 19.26°E

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The named rock units Earlandia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Earlandia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Earlandia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Earlandia, 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

58 references

Each of the 209 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. 46 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 Earlandia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plummer 1930