Millerella

Millerella is an extinct genus of fusulinid belonging to the family Eostaffellidae. Fossils of the genus have been found in Carboniferous beds in North America and central Asia.

Millerella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EostaffellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 114 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 95 of 114 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 19 of 114 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–325 Mya — about 2 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 9 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 15 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 6 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 5 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 7 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 6 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 13 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 25 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–273 Mya — about 5 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 5 occurrences270–266 Mya — about 5 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences335.9 Mya276.8 Mya361 Mya263 Mya

114 occurrences of Millerella 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

114 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

21 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 36.97°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 37.05°N, 96.41°WOread Limestone — 37.13°N, 96.20°WOread Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.07°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 37.76°N, 95.99°WOread Limestone — 38.03°N, 95.86°WOread Limestone — 38.09°N, 95.84°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 38.34°N, 95.64°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 38.84°N, 95.39°WOread Limestone — 38.78°N, 95.19°WOread Limestone — 38.92°N, 95.25°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.11°N, 95.11°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 40.96°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 40.99°N, 96.19°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.35°N, 94.30°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WAmsden — 41.81°N, 107.30°WAmsden — 41.83°N, 107.24°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.35°WAmsden — 44.88°N, 107.39°WAmsden — 42.40°N, 110.32°WArrey — 32.78°N, 107.27°WForaker Limestone — 39.02°N, 96.27°WForaker Limestone — 38.91°N, 96.08°WForaker Limestone — 38.77°N, 96.03°WForaker Limestone — 38.48°N, 96.27°WForaker Limestone — 38.02°N, 96.28°WForaker Limestone — 37.25°N, 96.54°WForaker Limestone — 37.54°N, 96.48°WWood Siding — 38.74°N, 95.99°WWood Siding — 39.07°N, 96.08°WWood Siding — 37.76°N, 96.40°WWood Siding — 37.54°N, 96.45°WWood Siding — 37.24°N, 96.53°WJanesville Shale — 38.93°N, 96.05°WJanesville Shale — 38.48°N, 96.28°WJanesville Shale — 38.37°N, 96.33°WJanesville Shale — 38.03°N, 96.28°WJanesville Shale — 37.56°N, 96.56°WJanesville Shale — 37.25°N, 96.53°WWhiskey Canyon Limestone — 33.20°N, 107.32°WAkavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EOtter — 47.30°N, 111.37°WLeete Limestone — 53.13°N, 3.22°WFra Cristobal — 32.78°N, 107.27°WApodaca — 32.78°N, 107.27°WGarcia — 33.20°N, 107.32°WElephant Butte — 33.20°N, 107.32°WTunnel Mountain — 50.48°N, 114.71°WLa Joya — 29.37°N, 109.88°WMagdalena Limestone — 31.84°N, 106.04°WFoldedal — 80.64°N, 16.33°WSangalt — 39.37°N, 67.58°ENarskaya — 48.30°N, 39.84°EBaird — 40.95°N, 122.27°W

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The named rock units Millerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Millerella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Millerella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

330 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Millerella, 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

19 references

Each of the 114 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 Millerella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Millerella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.