Bolivina
Searched as Bolivina vaughani. The Paleobiology Database treats Bolivina as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolivinidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina
Time the record covers
At least 7.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
2 occurrences of Bolivina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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 Bolivina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bolivina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bolivina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,686 taxa- Uvigerina108 sites
- Cibicidoides99 sites
- Cibicides88 sites
- Lenticulina70 sites
- Melonis70 sites
- Quinqueloculina57 sites
- Lagena55 sites
- Brizalina51 sites
- Globocassidulina51 sites
- Bulimina49 sites
- Elphidium47 sites
- Pyrgo47 sites
- Textularia45 sites
- Foraminifera41 sites
- Bolivinita39 sites
- Globobulimina pacifica36 sites
- Chilostomella34 sites
- Nonionella33 sites
- Planulina33 sites
- Sigmoilopsis32 sites
- Hoeglundina30 sites
- Rotalinoides30 sites
- Bulimina marginata29 sites
- Discorbinella27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 934 sites for Bolivina, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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- The Miocene to Recent diversity of Caribbean benthic foraminifera from the Central American Isthmus1
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Bolivina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bolivina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBolivinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839