Nonionidae

The Nonionidae is a foraminifera family within the order Rotaliida and part of the Nonionoidea, shells, or tests, of which are planispiral or trochospiral, calcareous and finely perforate. Includes the Nonioninae, Pulleniinae, Spirotectinae, and Astrononioninae.

Nonionidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NonionaceaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 5151 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 81 of 5151 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 5151 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 201 of 5151 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 237 of 5151 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 914 of 5151 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1092 of 5151 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2548 of 5151 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 42 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 32 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 10 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 11 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 12 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 13 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 30 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 30 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 37 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 69 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 63 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 62 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 93 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 149 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 152 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 187 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 189 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 169 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 850 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2933 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

5,151 occurrences of Nonionidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

5,151 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

82 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ERoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WRoca — 34.60°S, 69.72°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EKeasey — 45.86°N, 123.33°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.58°N, 7.58°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°EShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WOkhonchevayamskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WGniew — 53.84°N, 18.96°EAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°ECastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WPakhachinskaya — 60.42°N, 165.92°EOmihi — 43.15°S, 172.46°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°W

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The named rock units Nonionidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4,927 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nonionidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nonionidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,778 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,389 sites for Nonionidae, 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

209 references

Each of the 5,151 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. 197 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 Nonionidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Nonionidae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultze 1854