Ella
No picture of Ella 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 Ella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachythyrididaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
14 occurrences of Ella 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
14 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Ella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ella and its relatives
PermianWhere Ella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Callispirina ornata9 sites
- Martinia (Ella) blanfordi9 sites
- Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis8 sites
- Hemiptychina inflata8 sites
- Stenoscisma purdoni8 sites
- Hemiptychina crebriplicata7 sites
- Richthofenia lawrenciana7 sites
- Terebratuloidea davidsoni7 sites
- Transennatia gratiosa7 sites
- Cleiothyridina subexpansa6 sites
- Kiangsiella pectiniformis6 sites
- Martinia semiplana6 sites
- Spirigerella derbyi6 sites
- Cleiothyridina accola5 sites
- Cleiothyridina interposita5 sites
- Notothyris subvesicularis5 sites
- Spirifer (Purdonella) limitaris5 sites
- Spiriferellina nasuta5 sites
- Whitspakia problematica5 sites
- Cartorhium lunwalensis4 sites
- Costiferina indica4 sites
- Hemiptychina himalayensis4 sites
- Linoproductus lineatus4 sites
- Notothyris warthi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Ella, 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
5 references- Brachiopoda and Mollusca from the Productus limestones of the Salt Range9
- Kalashnikov, 19982
- The brachiopods and the boundary of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian in Longlin region, Guangxi1
- Carboniferous and Permian Brachiopoda1
- Brakhiopody nizhney Permi i iz znachenie dlya stratigrahii vostochno-Ukrainskogo Neftegazonosnogo basseyna1
Each of the 14 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. 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 content0
No picture of Ella 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 Ella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ella 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBrachythyrididae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.