Pseudopolymorphina
Searched as Pseudopolymorphina aff. ligua. The Paleobiology Database treats Pseudopolymorphina as the accepted name.
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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 most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Pseudopolymorphina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
1 formation
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group1
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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.
Pseudopolymorphina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudopolymorphina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
568 taxa- Dentalina25 sites
- Spiroplectammina carinata25 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus24 sites
- Elphidium24 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei23 sites
- Dentalina konincki23 sites
- Globulina gibba23 sites
- Guttulina problema23 sites
- Lentigodentalium23 sites
- Turritella23 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata22 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita22 sites
- Reussirella22 sites
- Ringicula buccinea22 sites
- Varicorbula gibba22 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella22 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)21 sites
- Cyclocardia21 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)21 sites
- Fusiturris21 sites
- Gemmula (Gemmula)21 sites
- Gouldia (Gouldia) minima21 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)21 sites
- Lenticulina (Robulus)21 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Pseudopolymorphina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudopolymorphina 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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What may have been alongside itPolymorphinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Ozawa 1928