Kansanella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FusulinoideaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 306 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
34 occurrences of Kansanella 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
34 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Oread Limestone Formation · Shawnee Group31
- Patlanoaya Formation1
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The named rock units Kansanella 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.
Kansanella and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kansanella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Triticites32 sites
- Endothyra31 sites
- Minammodytes polyvertus31 sites
- Syzrania31 sites
- Tetrataxis31 sites
- Climacammina30 sites
- Globivalvulina bulloides30 sites
- Millerella30 sites
- Apterrinella29 sites
- Bradyina magna29 sites
- Hyperammina29 sites
- Textularia29 sites
- Tuberitina29 sites
- Hemigordius24 sites
- Epimastopora22 sites
- Polychaeta21 sites
- Idiognathodus20 sites
- Porifera20 sites
- Bigenerina17 sites
- Cuneiphycus15 sites
- Fish indet.14 sites
- Nankinella14 sites
- Ammovertella12 sites
- Shamovella obscura12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Kansanella, 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
4 references- The Biota of the Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Leavenworth Limestone, Midcontinent Region Part 3: Distribution of Calcareous Foraminifera31
- Pennsylvanian-Permian Fusulinaceans of the Big Hatchet Mountains, New Mexico1
- Discovery of radiolaria and conodonts in the Carboniferous–Permian of San Salvador Patlanoaya (Puebla, Mexico); biostratigraphic implications1
- Pennsylvanian and Mississippian pluricolumnal assemblages (class Crinoidea) from southern Mexico and a new occurrence of a column with a tetralobate lumen1
Each of the 34 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 content1
Picture of Kansanella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Kansanella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFusulinoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.