Amphistegina lessonii

Amphistegina lessonii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphisteginaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Amphistegina
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 98 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 98 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 77 of 98 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 33 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

98 occurrences of Amphistegina lessonii 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

98 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

3 formations

Caloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WQom — 35.50°N, 48.42°ESanya — 16.85°N, 112.35°E

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The named rock units Amphistegina lessonii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amphistegina lessonii and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Amphistegina lessonii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

163 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Amphistegina lessonii, 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

18 references

Each of the 98 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. 6 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 Amphistegina lessonii

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No 3D scan of Amphistegina lessonii 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. d'Orbigny 1826