Bulimina pyrula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuliminaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 201 million years on record.
The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Bulimina pyrula on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
14 occurrences- Late Triassic7%
- Eocene21%
- Miocene40%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene14%
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
5 formations
- Bahía Inglesa Formation5
- Keasey Formation3
- Formación Coquimbo Formation2
- Studienka Formation1
- Westbury Formation · Penarth Group1
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The named rock units Bulimina pyrula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bulimina pyrula and its relatives
MioceneWhere Bulimina pyrula and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Bolivina5 sites
- Cibicides5 sites
- Dentalina5 sites
- Globigerina bulloides5 sites
- Lenticulina5 sites
- Neogloboquadrina pachyderma5 sites
- Pullenia5 sites
- Gyroidina4 sites
- Nonionella4 sites
- Quinqueloculina4 sites
- Uvigerina4 sites
- Bathysiphon eocenicus3 sites
- Cassidulina globosa3 sites
- Cibicides hodgei3 sites
- Cyclammina3 sites
- Fursenkoina3 sites
- Globigerinita glutinata3 sites
- Globobulimina pacifica3 sites
- Karreriella3 sites
- Nodosaria pyrula3 sites
- Plectofrondicularia packardi packardi3 sites
- Astrononion2 sites
- Bolivinita2 sites
- Brizalina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Bulimina pyrula, 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
8 references- The microfauna of the type section of the Keasey Formation of Northwestern Oregon3
- Site U15172
- Geología del Área Carrizalillo-El Tofo, Regiones de Atacama y Coquimbo2
- Cartas Castilla y Totoral Bajo, Región de Atacama. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0002
- Carta Caldera, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 76, 38 p. 1 mapa escala 1:100.0002
- Middle Miocene toothed whale with Platanista-like teeth from the Vienna Basin (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)1
- Hoja El Salvador Occidental, Región de Atacama. Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Carta Geológica de Chile, Serie Geología Básica, No. 90, 72 p., 1 mapa escala 1:250.000, Santiago1
- On Rhaetic Foraminifera from Wedmore, in Somerset1
Each of the 14 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
Media content1
Picture of Bulimina pyrula
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Bulimina pyrula 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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What may have been alongside itBulimina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1846