Gypsina

Gypsina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcervulinidaePBDB
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 2 of 73 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 73 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 73 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 73 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 13 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 6 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.7–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Gypsina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

73 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

13 formations

Nago Limestone — 46.05°N, 11.12°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EMonte S Angelo — 42.69°N, 9.32°ECrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WArguis — 42.37°N, 0.57°WMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°EHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EKasaba — 36.43°N, 29.80°EAugust Town — 17.98°N, 76.72°WUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°WNullarbor — 31.83°S, 128.63°EGüines — 22.98°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Gypsina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gypsina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Gypsina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

419 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Gypsina, 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

27 references

Each of the 73 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Gypsina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gypsina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAcervulinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1877