Orbulina suturalis

Orbulina suturalis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 420 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 499 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 499 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 499 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 499 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 499 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 347 of 499 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 87 of 499 occurrencesPleistocene — about 57 of 499 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 10 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 39 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 97 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 123 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 130 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 81 occurrences66 Mya420 ka103 Mya0 Mya

499 occurrences of Orbulina suturalis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

499 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

4 formations

Yorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WCessole — 44.65°N, 8.23°EFormación Coquimbo — 30.30°S, 71.60°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°E

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The named rock units Orbulina suturalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 495 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbulina suturalis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Orbulina suturalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

591 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 467 sites for Orbulina suturalis, 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

53 references

Each of the 499 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. 41 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 content1

Picture of Orbulina suturalis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orbulina suturalis 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 itOrbulina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broennimann 1951