Ammonia

Ammonia is a genus of marine foraminifers. It is one of the most abundant foraminifer genera worldwide and is found in sheltered, shallow marine intertidal environments, sometimes in brackish waters.

Ammonia

Scott Fay · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
AmmoniinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 243 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 243 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 243 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 78 of 243 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 243 occurrencesPleistocene — about 126 of 243 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 17 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 33 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 107 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

243 occurrences of Ammonia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

243 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

32 formations

Pebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPebas — 7.25°S, 74.98°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ETortonian Limestone — 34.99°N, 24.75°ECholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°ESagdere — 37.90°N, 29.30°EPensacola — 30.19°N, 88.90°WPensacola — 30.49°N, 88.55°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°ELagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°EGniew — 53.84°N, 18.96°EBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°EAl Khums — 30.50°N, 13.50°EGardiners Clay — 40.98°N, 72.32°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°E

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The named rock units Ammonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 168 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ammonia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ammonia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,453 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 181 sites for Ammonia, 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

70 references

Each of the 243 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. 58 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 content2

Picture of Ammonia

Credit
Scott Fay
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Bruennich 1772