Lagena

Lagena is a genus of benthic foraminifera of the family Lagenidae, the superfamily Nodosarioidea, the suborder Lagenina and the order Lagenida. Its type-species is Serpula (Lagena) sulcata. Its chronostratigraphic range spans from the Jurassic to the Present.

Lagena

Internet Archive Book Images · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
NodosariidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 254 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 901 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 901 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 901 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 901 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 6 of 901 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 901 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 901 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 24 of 901 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 74 of 901 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 901 occurrencesEocene — about 78 of 901 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 901 occurrencesMiocene — about 137 of 901 occurrencesPliocene — about 109 of 901 occurrencesPleistocene — about 386 of 901 occurrences265–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–247 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences247–239 Mya — about 1 occurrence239–230 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences230–221 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences221–212 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences212–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 4 occurrences194–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–133 Mya — about 8 occurrences133–124 Mya — about 13 occurrences115–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–71 Mya — about 18 occurrences71–62 Mya — about 54 occurrences62–53 Mya — about 13 occurrences53–44 Mya — about 22 occurrences44–35 Mya — about 43 occurrences35–27 Mya — about 33 occurrences27–18 Mya — about 48 occurrences18–8.8 Mya — about 69 occurrences8.8–0 Mya — about 549 occurrences254.14 Mya11.7 ka265 Mya0 Mya

901 occurrences of Lagena on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

901 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

46 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ESundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°EDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°ESchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.30°N, 21.00°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WGehannam — 29.24°N, 30.11°EChenaibo — 45.42°N, 142.02°ESchöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WMartinez — 38.00°N, 122.13°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Lagena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 764 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lagena and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lagena and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 813 sites for Lagena, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

136 references

Each of the 901 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. 124 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 Lagena

Credit
Internet Archive Book Images
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lagena 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walker and Boys 1784