Franklinella

Franklinella is an extinct genus of crustaceans of the class of the ostracods.

No picture of Franklinella 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 Franklinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhomboentomozoidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, detritivorePBDB, for Myodocopida
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Myodocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Myodocopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 368.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesDevonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian421–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413.02 Mya372.15 Mya421 Mya367 Mya

4 occurrences of Franklinella on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

4 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

  • Stuart Bay FormationNunavut · CA · 419.62–413.02 Mya1
  • Road River and /or Delorme FormationNorthwest Territories · CA · 419.62–413.02 Mya1
Stuart Bay — 75.75°N, 98.37°WRoad River and /or Delorme — 64.00°N, 133.00°W

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The named rock units Franklinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Franklinella and its relatives

Devonian

Where Franklinella and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Franklinella, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 Franklinella 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 Franklinella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Franklinella 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.

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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What may have been alongside itRhomboentomozoidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stewart and Hendrix 1945