Plectostaffella

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

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 most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 323.4 Mya and 315.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323.9 Mya314.7 Mya

17 occurrences of Plectostaffella 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

17 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

5 formations

Siuransky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EAkavassky — 54.30°N, 57.00°EDjebel Ouarkziz — 28.36°N, 9.48°WSyuransky — 57.33°N, 59.26°ETashastinsky — 57.33°N, 59.26°E

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

Plectostaffella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Plectostaffella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Plectostaffella, 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 17 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 Plectostaffella 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 Plectostaffella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Plectostaffella 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.

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What may have been alongside itEostaffellidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reitlinger 1971)