Schwagerina franklinensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchwagerinaPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Schwagerina franklinensis 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
4 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
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The named rock units Schwagerina franklinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schwagerina franklinensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Schwagerina franklinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Schwagerina diversiformis3 sites
- Composita subtilita2 sites
- Kozlowskia capaci2 sites
- Limbella wolfcampensis2 sites
- Linoproductus cora2 sites
- Orthotetella wolfcampensis2 sites
- Productus semistriatus2 sites
- Reticulatia2 sites
- Stewartina texana2 sites
- Chelononia straminea1 site
- Chonetinella spinolirata1 site
- Derbyia buchi1 site
- Echinauris boulei1 site
- Enteletes dumblei1 site
- Enteletes wolfcampensis1 site
- Eolyttonia fredericksi1 site
- Eridmatus texanus1 site
- Hustedia mormoni1 site
- Kochiproductus occidentalis1 site
- Martinia wolfcampensis1 site
- Meekella irregularis texana1 site
- Meekella striatocostata1 site
- Meekella texana1 site
- Neospirifer dunbari1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Schwagerina franklinensis, 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- The geology of Texas, volume III. Upper Paleozoic ammonites and fusulinids, part 2. Permian Fusulinidae of Texas3
- Fusulinidae of the Hueco Group (Lower Permian), Hueco Mountains, Texas1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Schwagerina franklinensis
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No 3D scan of Schwagerina franklinensis 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 itSchwagerina through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dunbar and Skinner 1937