Cibicides

Cibicides is a genus of cosmopolitan benthic foraminifera known from at least as far back as the Paleocene that extends down to the present.

Cibicides

Hannes Grobe · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 2027 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 2027 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 68 of 2027 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 92 of 2027 occurrencesEocene — about 154 of 2027 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 65 of 2027 occurrencesMiocene — about 484 of 2027 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 290 of 2027 occurrencesPleistocene — about 846 of 2027 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 6 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 32 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 31 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 40 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 48 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 21 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 22 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 32 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 65 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 22 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 34 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 74 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 126 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 179 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 162 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 1115 occurrences113.2 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

2,027 occurrences of Cibicides 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

2,027 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

92 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°ERoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WTortonian Limestone — 34.99°N, 24.75°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WArdanatz Sandstone — 42.81°N, 1.56°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°ESan Lorenzo — 37.16°N, 122.13°WEscalante — 49.52°N, 126.55°WHesquiat — 49.86°N, 127.14°WHesquiat — 49.53°N, 126.57°WKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°EClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°W

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The named rock units Cibicides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 68 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,761 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cibicides and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cibicides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,873 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,449 sites for Cibicides, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

181 references

Each of the 2,027 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. 169 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 Cibicides

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Hannes Grobe
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CC BY 3.0
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CT scan

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Specimen
Cibicides sp. · l-cb

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution-NonCommercial
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The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Monfort 1808