Polymorphinidae

Globulina gibba (d'Orbigny, 1832), a relative of Polymorphinidae — not Polymorphinidae itself

Not Polymorphinidae. This is Globulina gibba (d'Orbigny, 1832), a relative — both are Polymorphinidae.

George Manavopoulos · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 243 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 1241 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 1241 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 1241 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 43 of 1241 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 64 of 1241 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 59 of 1241 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 107 of 1241 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 131 of 1241 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 88 of 1241 occurrencesEocene — about 133 of 1241 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 103 of 1241 occurrencesMiocene — about 337 of 1241 occurrencesPliocene — about 78 of 1241 occurrencesPleistocene — about 86 of 1241 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 4 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 9 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 10 occurrences185–176 Mya — about 22 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 52 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 18 occurrences160–151 Mya — about 47 occurrences151–143 Mya — about 9 occurrences143–134 Mya — about 35 occurrences134–126 Mya — about 59 occurrences126–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences118–109 Mya — about 6 occurrences109–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 9 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 10 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 8 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 85 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 81 occurrences59–50 Mya — about 39 occurrences50–42 Mya — about 36 occurrences42–34 Mya — about 87 occurrences34–25 Mya — about 76 occurrences25–17 Mya — about 111 occurrences17–8.4 Mya — about 210 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 208 occurrences243.43 Mya11.7 ka252 Mya0 Mya

1,241 occurrences of Polymorphinidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,241 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

64 formations

Sundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.47°S, 25.60°ESundays River — 33.78°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EEl Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ERoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WCastillo Pedroso — 43.02°N, 4.17°WKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WCamino — 43.05°N, 4.07°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WLefipán — 42.81°S, 68.32°WSchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WRenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ELa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WLa Colonia — 43.05°S, 69.05°WLoncoche — 37.56°S, 69.83°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°W

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The named rock units Polymorphinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 850 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polymorphinidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Polymorphinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,807 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 828 sites for Polymorphinidae, 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

149 references

Each of the 1,241 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. 137 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 Globulina gibba (d'Orbigny, 1832)

Source
GBIF
Credit
George Manavopoulos
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Polymorphinidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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