Nonion
Searched as Nonion incisum. The Paleobiology Database treats Nonion as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NonionidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Nonion on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
13 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nonion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nonion and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Nonion and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
1,445 taxa- Uvigerina99 sites
- Elphidium83 sites
- Dentalina72 sites
- Cassidulina68 sites
- Cibicidoides62 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus59 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata58 sites
- Pullenia56 sites
- Martinottiella communis53 sites
- Asterigerina51 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei51 sites
- Epistominella51 sites
- Nodosaria51 sites
- Planulina51 sites
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus50 sites
- Gyroidinoides49 sites
- Lagena48 sites
- Lentigodentalium48 sites
- Quinqueloculina47 sites
- Globulina gibba46 sites
- Cibicides45 sites
- Dentalina konincki45 sites
- Textularia gramen44 sites
- Varicorbula gibba44 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 411 sites for Nonion, 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
2 references- Reassessment of the Zemorrian foraminiferal Stage and Juanian molluscan Stage north of the Olympic Mountains, Washington State and Vancouver Island12
- A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California1
Each of the 13 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 Nonion
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nonion 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 itNonionidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Montfort 1808