Cassidulina crassipunctata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassidulinaPBDB
- 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 most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Cassidulina crassipunctata on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
21 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Pysht Formation16
- San Lorenzo Formation4
- Hesquiat Formation · Carmanah Group1
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The named rock units Cassidulina crassipunctata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cassidulina crassipunctata and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Cassidulina crassipunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Nonion incisum11 sites
- Cibicides elmaensis9 sites
- Plectofrondicularia packardi multilineata9 sites
- Gyroidina orbicularis planate8 sites
- Gaudryna alazaensis6 sites
- Anomalinoides californiensis5 sites
- Bolivina advena5 sites
- Bucella mansfieldi oregonensis5 sites
- Elphidium minutum5 sites
- Melonis pompiliodes5 sites
- Discammina eocenica4 sites
- Plectofrondicularia packardi packardi4 sites
- Robulus warmani4 sites
- Uvigerina cocoaensis4 sites
- Anomalina californiensis3 sites
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus3 sites
- Cyclammina clarki3 sites
- Cyclammina incisa3 sites
- Gyroidina orbicularis3 sites
- Plectina ruthenica3 sites
- Plectofrondicularia vaughani3 sites
- Quinqueloculina weaver3 sites
- Robulus arcuatostriatus3 sites
- Robulus propinquus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Cassidulina crassipunctata, 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
3 references- Reassessment of the Zemorrian foraminiferal Stage and Juanian molluscan Stage north of the Olympic Mountains, Washington State and Vancouver Island16
- Foraminifera from the type section of the San Lorenzo Formation, Santa Cruz County, California4
- Biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations (Early Tertiary) of the Nootka Sound area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
Each of the 21 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 Cassidulina crassipunctata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cassidulina crassipunctata 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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What may have been alongside itCassidulina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Hobson 1935