Globigerina bulloides

Globigerina bulloides is a species of heterotrophic planktonic foraminifer with a wide distribution in the photic zone of the world's oceans. It is able to tolerate a range of sea surface temperatures, salinities and water densities, and is most abundant at high southern latitudes, certain high northern latitudes, and in low-latitude upwelling regions. The density or presence of G. bulloides may change as a function of phytoplankton bloom successions, and they are known to be most abundant during winter and spring months.

Globigerina bulloides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 3045 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 3045 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 3045 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 3045 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 407 of 3045 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 651 of 3045 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1947 of 3045 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 28 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 33 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 37 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 46 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 85 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 146 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 600 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 2048 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

3,045 occurrences of Globigerina bulloides on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

3,045 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

17 formations

Bahía 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°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EGatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°EMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.13°WCholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°EBathurst — 33.48°S, 26.93°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EArgille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°ELithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°E

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The named rock units Globigerina bulloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,013 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globigerina bulloides and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Globigerina bulloides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

831 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,929 sites for Globigerina bulloides, 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

142 references

Each of the 3,045 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. 130 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 bulloides

Credit
KDS4444
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

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

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGlobigerina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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