Epistomina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpistomininaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Epistominidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Epistominidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 181 million years on record.
The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.
119 occurrences of Epistomina on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
119 occurrences- Early Jurassic4%
- Middle Jurassic28%
- Late Jurassic12%
- Early Cretaceous45%
- Late Cretaceous5%
- Eocene2%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene2%
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
17 formations
- Sundays River Formation32
- Dhruma Formation · Shaqra Group6
- Tuwaiq Mt.Lst. Formation · Shaqra Group5
- Lindi Formation · Kilwa Group4
- Jubaila Lst. Formation · Shaqra Group3
- Renggeri-Ton Formation3
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The named rock units Epistomina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epistomina and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Epistomina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
632 taxa- Lenticulina68 sites
- Nodosaria41 sites
- Astacolus40 sites
- Citharina40 sites
- Ammobaculites39 sites
- Eoguttulina34 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)26 sites
- Haplophragmoides26 sites
- Vaginulina26 sites
- Dentalina25 sites
- Frondicularia25 sites
- Lingulina25 sites
- Saracenaria24 sites
- Reinholdella23 sites
- Textularia23 sites
- Gaudryina21 sites
- Palmula20 sites
- Planularia19 sites
- Trocholina18 sites
- Laevidentalina17 sites
- Dorothia16 sites
- Globulina16 sites
- Lenticulina munsteri16 sites
- Nautiloculina16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Epistomina, 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
32 references- The Foraminifera of the Late Valangian to Hautverian (Early Cretaceous) Sundays River Formation of the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa32
- Benthic foraminifers and palaeoenvironment in the Lower and Middle Jurassic of the Western Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain)19
- Le Jurassique D`Arabie Centrale17
- Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus6
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania drilling project sites 21-264
- Jurassic Microfossils from Gebel Maghara, Sinai, Egypt4
- Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. IV. Die Ophiuren aus dem Renggeri-Ton (Unter-Oxford) von Chapois (Jura) und Longecombe (Ain)3
- A Paleoecologic Study of the Upper Denton Formation, Tarrant, Denton, and Cooke Counties, Texas3
- Site U14662
- New palaeontological investigations in the Jurassic of western Thailand2
- Biostratigraphy of Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary Sediments in the Eastern Crimea2
- Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW)2
Each of the 119 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. 20 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 content1
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Epistomina flinti · AMNH:FI:19807
No picture of Epistomina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epistomina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itEpistomininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.