Buliminella

Searched as Buliminella elegantissima. The Paleobiology Database treats Buliminella as the accepted name.

Buliminella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 28 of 39 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 12 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Buliminella 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

39 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

9 formations

Canepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBahía Inglesa — 27.05°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.27°S, 70.91°WPensacola — 30.19°N, 88.90°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Buliminella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buliminella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Buliminella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Buliminella, 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

19 references

Each of the 39 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. 7 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 content2

Picture of Buliminella

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itTurrilininae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1911