Mississippina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MississippinidaePBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.
7 occurrences of Mississippina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous14%
- Paleocene86%
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 Mississippina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mississippina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Mississippina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Haddonia praeheissigi2 sites
- Polystrata alba2 sites
- Sporolithon2 sites
- Acervulina1 site
- Acicularia1 site
- Acropora1 site
- Actinacis barretti1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Anomalina1 site
- Bangiana1 site
- Cladocora1 site
- Clypeina1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Criobulimina cf. carniolica1 site
- Cymopolia1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Elianella elegans1 site
- Fallotella alavensis1 site
- Gaudryina1 site
- Halimeda1 site
- Idalina1 site
- Jodotella1 site
- Kathina1 site
- Lithoporella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Mississippina, 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
3 references- Samuel et al., 19725
- Palaeocene reef complex of the Western Carpathians1
- Paleocene reef sediments from the Maiella carbonate platform, Italy1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Mississippina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mississippina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mississippina 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 itMississippinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.