Assilina alpina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AssilinaPBDB
- 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.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Assilina alpina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
21 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Assilina alpina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Assilina alpina and its relatives
EoceneWhere Assilina alpina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Discocyclina dispansa17 sites
- Lithothamnion17 sites
- Mesophyllum17 sites
- Nemkovella strophiolata17 sites
- Nummulites chavannesi16 sites
- Nummulites incrassatus16 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides13 sites
- Pellatispira madaraszi12 sites
- Spiroclypeus granulosus12 sites
- Asterocyclina alticostata11 sites
- Discocyclina pratti11 sites
- Nummulites stellatus11 sites
- Heterostegina reticulata9 sites
- Spongites8 sites
- Sporolithon8 sites
- Acervulinoidea7 sites
- Chapmanina7 sites
- Eorupertia7 sites
- Fabiania7 sites
- Heterostegina7 sites
- Polystrata alba7 sites
- Sphaerogypsina7 sites
- Asterocyclina stellata6 sites
- Discocyclina augustae6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Assilina alpina, 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
2 references- Larger foraminiferal and coralline algal facies in an Upper Eocene storm-influenced, shallow-water carbonate platform (Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy)17
- The Upper Eocene crustose coralline algal pavement in the Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy4
Each of the 21 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. 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
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No picture of Assilina alpina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Assilina alpina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Assilina alpina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itAssilina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douville 1916