Globigerinella

Globigerinella

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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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 35 of 3139 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 37 of 3139 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 3139 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 3139 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 343 of 3139 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 599 of 3139 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2074 of 3139 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 6 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 14 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 14 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 19 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 17 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 8 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 14 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 20 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 15 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 20 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 46 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 90 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 201 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 592 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 2032 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

3,139 occurrences of Globigerinella 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

3,139 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

14 formations

Dakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°EFuentes — 52.55°S, 72.03°WFuentes — 52.45°S, 70.97°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.05°S, 71.43°WBahía Inglesa — 27.03°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.15°S, 70.88°WTuxpan — 20.47°N, 97.20°WCholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°ETopolovo — 41.90°N, 26.50°E

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The named rock units Globigerinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,055 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globigerinella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Globigerinella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

492 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,336 sites for Globigerinella, 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

106 references

Each of the 3,139 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. 94 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 Globigerinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itGlobigerinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927