Staffinella

Staffinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArcticidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Venerida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Venerida
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Venerida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 125.77 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165.3 Mya149.2 Mya169 Mya124.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Staffinella on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

Blisworth Limestone — 53.50°N, 0.33°WCurrier — 49.70°N, 126.62°W

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The named rock units Staffinella 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.

Staffinella and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Staffinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Staffinella, 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

Media content1

Picture of Staffinella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Staffinella 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 itArcticidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casey 1952