Bolivinita

Bolivinita

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BolivinitidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 334 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 334 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 80 of 334 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 236 of 334 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 23 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 22 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 27 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 41 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 45 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 144 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

334 occurrences of Bolivinita on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

334 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

Mangaoranga — 40.75°S, 175.60°EHijikata — 34.77°N, 138.02°EHijikara — 36.30°N, 139.37°E

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The named rock units Bolivinita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 330 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bolivinita and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bolivinita and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 314 sites for Bolivinita, and this reads 240 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

32 references

Each of the 334 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. 20 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 content1

Picture of Bolivinita

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Bolivinita 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.