Cassidulina

Cassidulina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassidulinidaePBDB
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 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 9 of 1672 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 117 of 1672 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 1672 occurrencesEocene — about 121 of 1672 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 157 of 1672 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 178 of 1672 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 131 of 1672 occurrencesPleistocene — about 923 of 1672 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 18 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 34 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 7 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 30 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 22 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 7 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 20 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 34 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 53 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 46 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 61 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 82 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 53 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 41 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 31 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 73 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 1031 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

1,672 occurrences of Cassidulina 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

1,672 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

81 formations

Suwannee Limestone — 29.33°N, 83.14°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.20°N, 82.18°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.11°N, 82.70°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.33°N, 82.76°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.92°N, 82.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.87°N, 82.75°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.17°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.36°N, 83.13°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.30°N, 83.10°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WSuwannee Limestone — 29.81°N, 82.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.12°N, 83.60°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.38°N, 83.80°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.37°N, 83.94°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.17°N, 83.96°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WCastle Hayne — 34.97°N, 78.05°WCastle Hayne — 34.66°N, 77.73°WCastle Hayne — 34.23°N, 77.94°WCastle Hayne — 34.44°N, 77.89°WCastle Hayne — 34.85°N, 77.70°WCastle Hayne — 34.29°N, 77.92°WCastle Hayne — 35.36°N, 77.32°WCastle Hayne — 35.32°N, 77.33°WPysht — 48.15°N, 123.86°WPysht — 48.16°N, 123.96°WPysht — 48.22°N, 124.12°WMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.70°EMaastricht — 50.85°N, 5.77°EMaastricht — 50.86°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.67°EGulpen — 50.80°N, 5.67°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WMoreno — 37.25°N, 121.16°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.14°WKeasey — 45.86°N, 123.33°WInglis Limestone — 29.02°N, 82.62°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WOcala — 30.99°N, 84.55°WOcala — 30.11°N, 83.22°WOcala — 31.17°N, 84.82°WOcala — 31.17°N, 84.74°WOcala — 30.95°N, 85.23°WGrizzle — 50.80°N, 0.18°ESimsima — 24.87°N, 55.95°ECabo de Lata — 43.49°N, 3.79°WCabo de Lata — 42.84°N, 2.18°WSan Lorenzo — 37.15°N, 122.14°WUpper Greensand — 50.80°N, 0.18°EUpper Greensand — 51.28°N, 0.37°WUpper Greensand — 50.75°N, 2.33°WSouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°EClayton — 32.21°N, 84.32°WClayton — 31.94°N, 86.32°WClayton — 31.69°N, 86.30°WHesquiat — 49.86°N, 127.14°WHesquiat — 49.53°N, 126.57°WHesquiat — 49.67°N, 126.87°WCrystal River Limestone — 31.25°N, 86.77°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.93°N, 82.70°WGulpen — 50.85°N, 5.70°ECaloosahatchee — 26.52°N, 82.03°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 25.75°N, 81.94°WWilmington Sands — 50.80°N, 0.18°E

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The named rock units Cassidulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,432 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassidulina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cassidulina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,307 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,356 sites for Cassidulina, 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

159 references

Each of the 1,672 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. 147 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 content3

Picture of Cassidulina

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cassidulina reniforme · l-cb

3D model

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

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. d'Orbigny 1826