Fossuliella

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ZhanatellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Linguloidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Linguloidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Lingulata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 499.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 504.5 Mya to 492.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Fossuliella on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Fossuliella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fossuliella and its relatives
CambrianWhere Fossuliella and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Anomocaridae1 site
- Anopolenus1 site
- Bailiaspis1 site
- Corynexochus1 site
- Dorypyge1 site
- Mixotreta quasidentata n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Olenekina1 site
- Peronopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Fossuliella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Cambrian - early Ordovician brachiopods from Malyi Karatau, the western Balkhash region, and Tien Shan, Central Asia2
- "The Teeth Bearing" inarticulate brachiopods from the Middle Cambrian of Siberia and Kazakhstan1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Fossuliella
- 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 Fossuliella 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.
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What may have been alongside itZhanatellidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Popov and Ushatinskaya 1992