Pseudoschwagerina gerontica

via iDigBio · CC0 · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudoschwagerinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya.
3 occurrences of Pseudoschwagerina gerontica on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Pseudoschwagerina gerontica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoschwagerina gerontica and its relatives
PermianWhere Pseudoschwagerina gerontica and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Pseudoschwagerina uddeni2 sites
- Boultonia1 site
- Dutkevitchia ruzhenzevi1 site
- Ozawainella1 site
- Paraschwagerina ischimbajica distincta1 site
- Pseudofusulina bornemani1 site
- Pseudoschwagerina beedei uralensis1 site
- Quasifusulina tenuissima1 site
- Schubertella1 site
- Schwagerina diversiformis1 site
- Triticites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudoschwagerina gerontica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- The Pennsylvanian-Early Permian Bird Spring carbonate shelf, southeastern California: fusulinid biostratigraphy, paleogeographic evolution, and tectonic implications1
- Leven and Shcherbovich, 19781
- Fusulinidae of the Hueco Group (Lower Permian), Hueco Mountains, Texas1
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. 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 Pseudoschwagerina gerontica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudoschwagerina gerontica 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 itPseudoschwagerina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Skinner 1937