Staffella

Staffella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StaffellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fusulinoidea

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 37 of 146 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 109 of 146 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 146 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 4 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 7 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 5 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 4 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 4 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 5 occurrences298–295 Mya — about 4 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 6 occurrences293–290 Mya — about 10 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 2 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–280 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 5 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 7 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 7 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 17 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 14 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 7 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 5 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 7 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 5 occurrences318.6 Mya254.14 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

146 occurrences of Staffella 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

146 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

49 formations

Surmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°ESurmaq — 30.91°N, 53.22°EGnishik — 39.93°N, 44.88°EGnishik — 39.56°N, 45.40°EGnishik — 39.73°N, 45.15°EGnishik — 39.83°N, 45.06°ECanyon Fiord — 78.26°N, 85.22°WCanyon Fiord — 78.61°N, 84.52°WCanyon Fiord — 78.36°N, 85.38°WKhachik — 39.66°N, 45.22°EKhachik — 39.54°N, 45.43°EKhachik — 39.95°N, 44.94°EZweikofel — 46.58°N, 13.22°EZweikofel — 46.58°N, 13.33°EMitai — 32.76°N, 131.35°EHueco Canyon — 31.67°N, 105.83°WHueco Canyon — 31.85°N, 105.99°WHueco Canyon — 32.00°N, 106.05°WMcCoy — 39.92°N, 106.73°WMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°WKhachik — 39.60°N, 45.15°EGnishik — 39.60°N, 45.15°EGnishik — 39.58°N, 45.23°EHuai Tak — 18.72°N, 99.88°EBorn — 46.38°N, 14.33°ELower Pseudoschwagerina Limestone — 46.42°N, 14.39°EDalan — 32.42°N, 49.99°EAtoka — 34.60°N, 96.24°WChangxing — 29.92°N, 106.43°EChangxing — 31.10°N, 119.73°EBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WBoggy — 34.84°N, 96.72°WGnishik — 38.94°N, 45.51°EXiala — 30.95°N, 89.20°EAkasaka — 35.40°N, 136.58°EGrenzland — 46.57°N, 13.23°EWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°EBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WCatalcesme — 40.17°N, 40.00°E

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The named rock units Staffella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Staffella and its relatives

Permian

Where Staffella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

712 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Staffella, 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

48 references

Each of the 146 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. 36 further references are not listed. 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 Staffella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Staffella 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.