Miogypsina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MiogypsinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
53 occurrences of Miogypsina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
53 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
17 formations
- Qom Formation Formation9
- Bakhtiari Formation6
- Morne Diablo Limestone Formation5
- Pakhna Formation4
- Gaj Formation2
- Quilon Limestone Formation2
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The named rock units Miogypsina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Miogypsina and its relatives
MioceneWhere Miogypsina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Amphistegina14 sites
- Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina)14 sites
- Operculina13 sites
- Lepidocyclina11 sites
- Mollusca11 sites
- Eulepidina10 sites
- Heterostegina10 sites
- Corallinophycidae9 sites
- Echinodermata9 sites
- Neorotalia9 sites
- Bryozoa8 sites
- Lithophyllum5 sites
- Borelis4 sites
- Miogypsinoides4 sites
- Miolepidocyclina3 sites
- Rotaliidae3 sites
- Spiroclypeus3 sites
- Archaias2 sites
- Austrotrillina2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carpenteria2 sites
- Celleporaria2 sites
- Corallinales2 sites
- Cycloclypeus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Miogypsina, 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
25 references- Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of the Oligocene–early Miocene marine Qom Formation, Central Iran Back-Arc Basin, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)9
- Miocene scleractinian corals from a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate system: Bakhtiari succession, Zagros Basin (central-western Iran)6
- Description, correlation, and paleoecology of Tertiary Cipero Marl, Trinidad, BWI5
- Microfacies evidence for the evolution of Miocene coral-reef environments in Cyprus4
- Ages of Miocene Fossil Localities In The Northern Kutai Basin (east Kalimantan, Indonesia)4
- On Some Fossil Bryozoa From India3
- Growth and demise of a Burdigalian coral bioconstruction on a granite rocky substrate (Bonifacio Basin, southeastern Corsica)2
- The Quilon Limestone, Kerala Basin, India: an archive for Miocene Indo-Pacific seagrass beds2
- On a fossil sea-cow from the Gaj Formation of Kutch, India2
- Facies, depositional environments, and anatomy of the Subis build‑up in Sarawak, Malaysia: implications on other Miocene isolated carbonate build‑ups1
- Early Miocene reef- and mudflat-associated gastropods from Makran (SE-Iran)1
- Coralline Algae and Benthic Foraminifera from the Long Formation (middle Miocene) of the Little Andaman Island, India: Biofacies Analysis, Systematics and Palaeoenvironmental Implications1
Each of the 53 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. 13 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 Miogypsina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Patafisik
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Miogypsina 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 itMiogypsinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sacco 1893