Cibicidoides
Searched as Cibicidoides pseudoperlucidus. The Paleobiology Database treats Cibicidoides as the accepted name.
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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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
9 occurrences of Cibicidoides on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cibicidoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cibicidoides and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cibicidoides and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
781 taxa- Gyroidinoides137 sites
- Lenticulina121 sites
- Planulina120 sites
- Uvigerina120 sites
- Dentalina118 sites
- Oridorsalis104 sites
- Pyrgo97 sites
- Gaudryina93 sites
- Sigmoilopsis91 sites
- Osangularia86 sites
- Globocassidulina85 sites
- Pullenia84 sites
- Anomalinoides78 sites
- Laticarinina75 sites
- Melonis71 sites
- Stilostomella70 sites
- Brizalina66 sites
- Quinqueloculina64 sites
- Bulimina61 sites
- Gyroidina61 sites
- Saracenaria60 sites
- Bolivina57 sites
- Nodosaria57 sites
- Sphaeroidina bulloides57 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,167 sites for Cibicidoides, 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
2 references- Foraminiferal turnover across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at the Zumaya section, Spain: record of a bathyal gradual mass extinction6
- Integrated biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian–Danian succession at Abu Minqar, Egyptian Western Desert: Implications for sequence stratigraphy and tectonic influence3
Each of the 9 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 content2
Picture of Cibicidoides
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCibicidinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.