Orbulina

Orbulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 3445 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 3445 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 3445 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 3445 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 3445 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1061 of 3445 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 849 of 3445 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1492 of 3445 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 34 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 46 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 97 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 228 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 404 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 865 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1747 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

3,445 occurrences of Orbulina 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

3,445 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

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.30°S, 71.60°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°EClacare di Mendicino — 39.18°N, 16.27°ECholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°ECessole — 44.65°N, 8.23°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WChoctawhatchee — 30.52°N, 86.48°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WCapo San Marco — 39.90°N, 8.43°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EArgille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°EKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°EGüines — 22.98°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Orbulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,420 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbulina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Orbulina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,089 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,784 sites for Orbulina, and this reads 240 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

144 references

Each of the 3,445 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. 132 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Orbulina

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Orbulina universa · l-mw:F14

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839