Palaeostaffella

No picture of Palaeostaffella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Palaeostaffella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermian316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya293.52 Mya315.7 Mya289.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Palaeostaffella 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

3 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

Foldedal — 80.64°N, 16.33°WSartakht — 33.97°N, 56.47°E

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The named rock units Palaeostaffella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Palaeostaffella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeostaffella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Palaeostaffella, 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

2 references

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Palaeostaffella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Palaeostaffella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeostaffella 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.