Gypsina
Searched as Gypsina ogormani. The Paleobiology Database treats Gypsina as the accepted name.
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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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
10 occurrences of Gypsina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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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. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gypsina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Gypsina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
419 taxa- Nummulites21 sites
- Discocyclina19 sites
- Mesophyllum16 sites
- Lithothamnion15 sites
- Bryozoa14 sites
- Heterostegina14 sites
- Miliolida13 sites
- Operculina13 sites
- Textulariida13 sites
- Amphistegina11 sites
- Sphaerogypsina10 sites
- Spongites10 sites
- Asterocyclina9 sites
- Echinodermata9 sites
- Orbitolites9 sites
- Spiroclypeus9 sites
- Kathina subsphaerica8 sites
- Lithoporella8 sites
- Soriella bitlisica8 sites
- Corallinales7 sites
- Rotaliida7 sites
- Aethesolithon6 sites
- Asterigerina6 sites
- Bivalvia6 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 10 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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 Sketchfab.
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 itAcervulinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carter 1877