Epistominella

Epistominella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 587 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 587 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 587 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 587 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 34 of 587 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 88 of 587 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 42 of 587 occurrencesPleistocene — about 394 of 587 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 17 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 29 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 20 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 14 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 11 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 14 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 36 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 414 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

587 occurrences of Epistominella 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

587 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

12 formations

Pensacola — 30.19°N, 88.90°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°E

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The named rock units Epistominella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 572 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epistominella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Epistominella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

946 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 558 sites for Epistominella, 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

69 references

Each of the 587 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. 57 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Epistominella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itDiscorbidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Husezima and Maruhasi 1944