Bifarina

No picture of Bifarina 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 Bifarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya27.3 Mya108 Mya21 Mya

3 occurrences of Bifarina on record. 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

3 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

Rosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°Wfahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ECane River — 31.76°N, 93.09°W

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The named rock units Bifarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bifarina, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Bifarina 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 Bifarina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bifarina 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.