Cassigerinella

Cassigerinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CassigerinellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 420 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesOligocene — about 10 of 42 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 42 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27.3 Mya1.9 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Cassigerinella 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

42 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

2 formations

Burgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°W

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The named rock units Cassigerinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cassigerinella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cassigerinella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

384 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cassigerinella, 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

13 references

Each of the 42 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. 1 further reference is 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 Cassigerinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cassigerinella 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 itCassigerinellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pokorny 1955