Borelis

Borelis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlveolinidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 53 of 157 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 59 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 157 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 9 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences41.03 Mya774 ka49 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Borelis 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

157 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

16 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°EBolognano — 42.17°N, 14.04°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°EAl Bad — 28.17°N, 34.90°EMut — 36.83°N, 33.47°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°EPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.08°ETayran — 28.43°N, 34.87°EMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°EZiqlag — 31.28°N, 34.62°EAl Faidiyah — 32.69°N, 21.91°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EBakhtiari — 32.06°N, 50.81°E

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The named rock units Borelis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Borelis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Borelis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Borelis, 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

27 references

Each of the 157 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. 15 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 Borelis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Borelis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1808