Alveolinidae

Alveolinidae is a family of spheroidal to fusiform milioline foraminifera with multiple apertures and complex interiors in which chambers are subdivided into chamberlets and subfloors interconnected by passageways. As with all Miliolina, the test wall in alveolinids is porcellaneous and imperforate. In living individuals the pseudopodia emerge through the multiple apertures that line the apertural or leading face of the test.

Alveolinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlveolinaceaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 513 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 34 of 513 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 96 of 513 occurrencesEocene — about 203 of 513 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 61 of 513 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 68 of 513 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 513 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 513 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 15 occurrences95–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 44 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 96 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 82 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 41 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 18 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 9 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 11 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 22 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 24 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 19 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 16 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 19 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.3–4.1 Mya — about 23 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences119.57 Mya129 ka124 Mya0 Mya

513 occurrences of Alveolinidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

513 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

72 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°EKirkkavak — 39.93°N, 32.87°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WTaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°ETaleh Zang — 33.17°N, 47.68°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°EBolognano — 42.17°N, 14.04°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°ELut platform — 32.71°N, 59.29°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°EAl Bad — 28.17°N, 34.90°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°ELockhart Limestone — 32.43°N, 70.50°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ETavertet/Girona Limestone — 41.97°N, 3.17°EMut — 36.83°N, 33.47°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°ENavarri — 42.38°N, 0.39°E

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The named rock units Alveolinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 226 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alveolinidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Alveolinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

955 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 286 sites for Alveolinidae, and this reads 240 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

105 references

Each of the 513 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. 93 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 Alveolinidae

Credit
ViriatoLusitano
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Alveolinidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Ehrenberg 1839