Haurania

Haurania is a genus of elongated, finely agglutinated benthic foraminifera included in the Spirocyclinidae. The test is free, starting with a brief planispiral coil followed by a straight uncoiled stage. The exterior is imperforate, the interior divided by radial septula or beams, perpendicular to the septa and outer wall. The aperture is cribrate, a series of openings on the terminal face.

Haurania

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 22 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 22 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 22 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 3 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 3 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 3 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–164 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192.9 Mya154.8 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

22 occurrences of Haurania on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

22 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

4 formations

Calcari Grigi — 45.48°N, 11.02°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 10.98°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 11.13°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EJebel Rihat — 31.92°N, 4.42°WXiron — 38.92°N, 23.42°E

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The named rock units Haurania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Haurania and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Haurania and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Haurania, 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

5 references

Each of the 22 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. 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 Haurania

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

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

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 itSpirocyclinidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.