Pseudopolymorphina

No picture of Pseudopolymorphina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudopolymorphina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 37 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 3 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 13 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.7–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence132.6 Mya129 ka140 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Pseudopolymorphina 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

37 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

2 formations

Sundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°W

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The named rock units Pseudopolymorphina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudopolymorphina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudopolymorphina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

568 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Pseudopolymorphina, 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

4 references

Each of the 37 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 Pseudopolymorphina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudopolymorphina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudopolymorphina was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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. Cushman and Ozawa 1928