Plectofrondicularia vaughani
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlectofrondiculariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
6 occurrences of Plectofrondicularia vaughani on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 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 Plectofrondicularia vaughani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plectofrondicularia vaughani and its relatives
EoceneWhere Plectofrondicularia vaughani and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
123 taxa- Anomalina californiensis4 sites
- Gyroidina orbicularis4 sites
- Cassidulina crassipunctata3 sites
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus3 sites
- Discammina eocenica3 sites
- Eponides kleinpelli3 sites
- Plectina ruthenica3 sites
- Robulus arcuatostriatus3 sites
- Robulus warmani3 sites
- Buliminella subfusiformis2 sites
- Cassidulina globosa2 sites
- Cyclammina clarki2 sites
- Cyclammina incisa2 sites
- Martinottiella eocenica2 sites
- Pseudoglandulina ovata2 sites
- Robulus propinquus2 sites
- Robulus simplex2 sites
- Uvigerina garzaensis2 sites
- Virgulina bramlettei2 sites
- Ammobaculites cubensis1 site
- Amphimorphina ignota1 site
- Anomalina garzaensis1 site
- Anomalinoides globosa1 site
- Asterigerina crassaformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Plectofrondicularia vaughani, 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- Foraminifera from the type section of the San Lorenzo Formation, Santa Cruz County, California4
- The Late Eocene ‘Whiskey Creek’ methane-seep deposit (western Washington State)1
- Biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations (Early Tertiary) of the Nootka Sound area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Plectofrondicularia vaughani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plectofrondicularia vaughani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plectofrondicularia vaughani 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 itPlectofrondicularia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927