Globigerina

Globigerina is a genus of planktonic Foraminifera, in the order of Rotaliida. It has populated the world's oceans since the Middle Jurassic.

Globigerina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 5199 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 9 of 5199 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 5199 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 151 of 5199 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 5199 occurrencesEocene — about 49 of 5199 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 168 of 5199 occurrencesMiocene — about 743 of 5199 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1048 of 5199 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2950 of 5199 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 4 occurrences151–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 36 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 90 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 28 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 12 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 10 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 11 occurrences41–35 Mya — about 18 occurrences35–29 Mya — about 69 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 99 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 185 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 174 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 344 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 4089 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka174 Mya0 Mya

5,199 occurrences of Globigerina 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

5,199 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

79 formations

Plenus Marl — 50.80°N, 0.18°EWhite Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°ESecond White Specks — 49.50°N, 112.17°WSecond White Specks — 51.58°N, 111.00°WSecond White Specks — 53.00°N, 110.17°WLower Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 28.80°N, 34.48°EAbu Qada — 28.68°N, 32.42°EBahía Inglesa — 27.05°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.31°S, 70.92°WBahía Inglesa — 27.70°S, 70.98°WBahía Inglesa — 27.82°S, 71.03°WBahía Inglesa — 27.90°S, 71.10°WBahía Inglesa — 26.74°S, 70.73°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.04°S, 71.41°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Inférieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°ERaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°ERaha — 28.80°N, 34.48°EGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°EQom — 35.50°N, 48.42°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EToledo — 16.26°N, 89.03°WToledo — 16.30°N, 88.80°WPensacola — 30.19°N, 88.90°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Supérieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WHijikata — 34.77°N, 138.02°EBuccleuch — 35.28°S, 139.45°E

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The named rock units Globigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4,919 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globigerina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Globigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,510 sites for Globigerina, 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

240 references

Each of the 5,199 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. 228 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 content2

Picture of Globigerina

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlobigerinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826