Planorbulina
Searched as Planorbulina uva. The Paleobiology Database treats Planorbulina as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlanorbulininaePBDB
- 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 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
13 occurrences of Planorbulina 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
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Planorbulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Planorbulina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Planorbulina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
1,220 taxa- Elphidium28 sites
- Sporolithon25 sites
- Elianella elegans24 sites
- Polystrata alba24 sites
- Amphistegina23 sites
- Uvigerina23 sites
- Lenticulina21 sites
- Miliolida21 sites
- Bolivina20 sites
- Bryozoa19 sites
- Textularia17 sites
- Cibicides16 sites
- Lagena16 sites
- Mesophyllum16 sites
- Bulimina15 sites
- Miliolidae15 sites
- Brizalina14 sites
- Cibicidoides14 sites
- Lithothamnion14 sites
- Textulariida14 sites
- Triloculina14 sites
- Borelis13 sites
- Quinqueloculina13 sites
- Rosalina13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Planorbulina, 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- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)9
- Palaeocene reef complex of the Western Carpathians2
- Palaeoecological significance of coral−encrusting foraminiferan associations: A case−study from the Upper Eocene of northern Italy2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Planorbulina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Planorbulina 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 itPlanorbulininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826