Globigerina
Searched as Globigerina pseodobulloides. The Paleobiology Database treats Globigerina as the accepted name.
Globigerina is a genus of planktonic Foraminifera, in the order of Rotaliida. It has populated the world's oceans since the Middle Jurassic.

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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 most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Globigerina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
1 formation
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group1
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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.
Globigerina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Globigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
2,404 taxa- Hedbergella79 sites
- Guembelina moremani73 sites
- Whiteinella baltica71 sites
- Guembelitria69 sites
- Guembelina reussi64 sites
- Globigerinelloides63 sites
- Orbulina universa62 sites
- Globigerinoides ruber60 sites
- Whiteinella archaeocretacea60 sites
- Trilobatus sacculifer59 sites
- Globigerinoides56 sites
- Globigerinella siphonifera55 sites
- Neogloboquadrina acostaensis55 sites
- Globigerinoides conglobatus54 sites
- Globigerinoides extremus54 sites
- Globorotalia (Menardella) menardii54 sites
- Neogloboquadrina humerosa54 sites
- Whiteinella54 sites
- Globigerinella obesa53 sites
- Globigerinoides elongatus53 sites
- Globigerinoides obliquus53 sites
- Globoturborotalita apertura53 sites
- Trilobatus immaturus53 sites
- Dentoglobigerina venezuelana52 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Globigerina
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- 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
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Globigerina”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGlobigerinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826