Palaeospiroplectammina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeospiroplectamminidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 141 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 21 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 25 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrences362–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–351 Mya — about 3 occurrences351–346 Mya — about 3 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 3 occurrences340–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences307–302 Mya — about 4 occurrences302–297 Mya — about 6 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 2 occurrences269–264 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences209–204 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences346.7 Mya205.7 Mya362 Mya198 Mya

25 occurrences of Palaeospiroplectammina 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

25 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

8 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 40.99°N, 96.19°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WBurlington Limestone — 38.05°N, 93.70°WLucan — 53.62°N, 6.88°WLucan — 53.63°N, 6.73°WKelitag — 37.52°N, 76.29°EHolder — 32.96°N, 105.92°WLane — 53.55°N, 6.13°WWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°ETin Mountain — 36.35°N, 116.53°W

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The named rock units Palaeospiroplectammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeospiroplectammina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeospiroplectammina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

280 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Palaeospiroplectammina, 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

11 references

Each of the 25 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 Palaeospiroplectammina 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 Palaeospiroplectammina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeospiroplectammina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.