Miliola

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiliolinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 102 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
6 occurrences of Miliola on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Early Cretaceous17%
- Paleocene55%
- Eocene12%
- Miocene17%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Miliola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Miliola and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Miliola and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acmaea1 site
- Alveolina1 site
- Amphiroa1 site
- Assilina1 site
- Biloculina1 site
- Chlamys (Placopecten) princeps priori1 site
- Chlamys (Plagioctenium) diprosopa1 site
- Cibicides1 site
- Cymopolia1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Dissocladella1 site
- Glomalveolina1 site
- Idalina sinjarica1 site
- Kathina1 site
- Lentipecten corneus1 site
- Miscellanea1 site
- Mytilus brewsterensis1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Operculina1 site
- Orbitolites1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Peneroplis1 site
- Pliothyrina grandis1 site
- Saudia labyrinthica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Miliola, 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
4 references- Samuel et al., 19723
- Oldest scleractinian fauna from Jamaica (Hauterivian, Benbow Inlier)1
- Microfossils and carbonate microfacies of Sinjar Formation, west of Sulaimaniyah city, Kurdistan region, NE Iraq1
- Tertiary faunas from Kap Brewstwer, East Greenland1
Each of the 6 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 Miliola
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Miliola 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMiliolinae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1804