Anomalina

Anomalina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomalinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 260 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 260 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 260 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 260 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 260 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 260 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 42 of 260 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 260 occurrencesEocene — about 83 of 260 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 44 of 260 occurrencesMiocene — about 48 of 260 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 260 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 260 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 12 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 25 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 18 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 25 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 34 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 31 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 31 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 52 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences237 Mya129 ka246 Mya0 Mya

260 occurrences of Anomalina 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

260 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

39 formations

Plenus Marl — 50.80°N, 0.18°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WLower Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°ERaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ESan Lorenzo — 37.16°N, 122.13°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WClays of Ypres — 51.25°N, 4.28°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WKambuhel — 49.38°N, 20.67°EKambuhel — 49.37°N, 18.54°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WBredasdorp & Varswater — 32.98°S, 18.12°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WWhite Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EDenton — 32.75°N, 97.25°WTorcer — 31.23°N, 105.55°WPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EAlexandria — 32.98°S, 27.58°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°ECoamo — 18.33°N, 66.32°WPoronai — 43.26°N, 141.89°E

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The named rock units Anomalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 164 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomalina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Anomalina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 229 sites for Anomalina, 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

61 references

Each of the 260 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. 49 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 Anomalina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Anomalina mantaensis · AMNH:FI:19954

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 itAnomalinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826