Flustrella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FlustrellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Radiolaria

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 24 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 24 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–62 Mya — about 8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences113.2 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Flustrella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 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

2 formations

Mead Hill — 41.92°S, 174.07°EKirsanovskaya — 52.55°N, 42.57°E

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The named rock units Flustrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Flustrella and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Flustrella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

229 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Flustrella, 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

Each of the 24 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

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No picture of Flustrella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Flustrella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1838