Globigerinoides

Globigerinoides is an extant genus of shallow-water planktonic foraminifera of family Globigerinidae. First appearing in the Oligocene, these foraminifera are found in all modern oceans. Species of this genus occupy the euphotic zone, generally at depths between 10 and 50 m, in waters which cover a range of salinities and temperatures. They are a shorter lived species, especially when compared to Globorotalia genus. As a genus, Globigerinoides is widely used in various fields of research including biostratigraphy, isotope geochemistry, biogeochemistry, climatology, and oceanography.

Globigerinoides

Antonov · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 9718 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9718 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 9718 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 9718 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 9718 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 68 of 9718 occurrencesMiocene — about 2752 of 9718 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2496 of 9718 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4335 of 9718 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 8 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 41 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 267 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 357 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 671 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 1806 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 6550 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka146 Mya0 Mya

9,718 occurrences of Globigerinoides 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

9,718 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

29 formations

Mikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°WKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°EClacare di Mendicino — 39.18°N, 16.27°EUkari — 34.80°N, 137.90°EHijikara — 36.30°N, 139.37°ECholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°ECalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°EBathurst — 33.48°S, 26.93°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WSanta Cruz — 16.26°N, 119.92°EGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°EBakhtiari — 32.06°N, 50.81°EBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EBargny — 14.68°N, 17.20°W

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The named rock units Globigerinoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9,667 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globigerinoides and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Globigerinoides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,349 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 857 sites for Globigerinoides, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

165 references

Each of the 9,718 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. 153 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 content3

Picture of Globigerinoides

Credit
Antonov
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Globigerinoides ruber · AMNH:FI:88917

3D model

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

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. Cushman 1927