Anomalina
Searched as Anomalina cf. polymorpha. The Paleobiology Database treats Anomalina as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
- AnomalinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anomalina on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Anomalina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Anomalina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,780 taxa- Dentalina117 sites
- Gyroidinoides110 sites
- Oridorsalis108 sites
- Stilostomella108 sites
- Cibicidoides104 sites
- Anomalinoides102 sites
- Pullenia96 sites
- Pleurostomella94 sites
- Bulimina90 sites
- Foraminifera89 sites
- Cassidulina78 sites
- Nuttallides74 sites
- Nodosaria72 sites
- Pullenia quinqueloba69 sites
- Ellipsodimorphina68 sites
- Gyroidina67 sites
- Dorothia65 sites
- Lenticulina61 sites
- Fissurina59 sites
- Lagena55 sites
- Karreriella51 sites
- Chrysalogonium46 sites
- Alabamina44 sites
- Epistominella37 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 content2
Picture of Anomalina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- 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.
Keep going
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