Homotrematidae

Philippe Bourjon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- AcervulinaceaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina
Time the record covers
At least 233 million years on record.
The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.
216 occurrences of Homotrematidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
216 occurrences- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceous1%
- Paleocene16%
- Eocene9%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene22%
- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene21%
- Holocene20%
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
32 formations
- Tortonian Limestone Formation22
- Nago Limestone Formation11
- Kambuhel Limestone Formation4
- Schrattenkalk Formation3
- Hato Formation3
- Antigua Formation3
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The named rock units Homotrematidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 132 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Homotrematidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Homotrematidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,045 taxa- Homotrema50 sites
- Amphistegina35 sites
- Bryozoa35 sites
- Lithophyllum32 sites
- Mesophyllum32 sites
- Miniacina29 sites
- Carpenteria27 sites
- Lithothamnion24 sites
- Porites23 sites
- Elphidium22 sites
- Heterostegina22 sites
- Spongites21 sites
- Pecten20 sites
- Gastropoda19 sites
- Sporolithon17 sites
- Titanoderma15 sites
- Clypeaster13 sites
- Corallinophycidae13 sites
- Tarbellastraea13 sites
- Echinodermata12 sites
- Cibicides11 sites
- Operculina11 sites
- Textulariida11 sites
- Halimeda10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 100 sites for Homotrematidae, 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
72 references- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on non-geniculate coralline red algal assemblages in Miocene limestone of central Crete22
- A 300000-yr coral reef record of sea level changes, Mururoa atoll (Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia)16
- Samuel et al., 197215
- Palaeoecological significance of coral−encrusting foraminiferan associations: A case−study from the Upper Eocene of northern Italy11
- Calcified epibionts as palaeoecological tools: examples from the Recent and Pleistocene reefs of Barbados11
- Micropaleontology of four sections south of Qoseir, Egypt10
- Palaeocene reef complex of the Western Carpathians9
- Coralline Algae and Benthic Foraminifera from the Long Formation (middle Miocene) of the Little Andaman Island, India: Biofacies Analysis, Systematics and Palaeoenvironmental Implications7
- Late glacial to post glacial sea levels in the western Indian Ocean7
- Pleistocene marine depositional environments from Mauritius island, Indian Ocean6
- Holocene development of three isolated carbonate platforms, Belize, central America5
- Holocene core logs and site statistics for modern patch-reef cores: Biscayne National Park, Florida4
Each of the 216 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. 60 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 Homotrematidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Philippe Bourjon
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Homotrematidae 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 itAcervulinacea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927