Miscellanea

Miscellanea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PellatispiridaePBDB
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 413 million years on record.

The record covers at least 451.3 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 168 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 168 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 168 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 168 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 168 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 168 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 168 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 168 occurrencesPaleocene — about 99 of 168 occurrencesEocene — about 64 of 168 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 168 occurrences461–446 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–55 Mya — about 112 occurrences55–40 Mya — about 52 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence451.3 Mya37.71 Mya461 Mya26 Mya

168 occurrences of Miscellanea 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

168 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

22 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.27°N, 91.73°ETarbur — 31.60°N, 51.20°ETarbur — 31.72°N, 51.20°EHricocske Podhradie — 49.22°N, 18.70°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ETrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°ETaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°EHradisko — 49.22°N, 18.62°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°ECraighead Limestone — 57.00°N, 4.00°WSanta Anita — 8.40°N, 62.78°WSylhet — 25.23°N, 91.58°ELaladong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°EKambuhel — 47.60°N, 13.20°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EKravarikovci — 48.73°N, 17.64°EProc — 49.05°N, 21.46°EPuch — 49.23°N, 19.32°E

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The named rock units Miscellanea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miscellanea and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Miscellanea and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Miscellanea, 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

28 references

Each of the 168 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. 16 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 Miscellanea

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

No 3D scan of Miscellanea 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 itPellatispiridae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.