Globorotalia flexuosa

Globorotalia flexuosa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 9.1 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 32 of 59 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 59 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 59 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–9.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.1–8.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.8–8.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.4–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.8–4.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.1–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence12.1 Mya2.1 Mya

59 occurrences of Globorotalia flexuosa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

59 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.

Globorotalia flexuosa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Globorotalia flexuosa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Globorotalia flexuosa, and this reads all 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 reference

Each of the 59 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Globorotalia flexuosa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itGloborotalia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koch 1923)