Quinqueloculina

Quinqueloculina is a genus of foraminifera in the family Miliolidae.

Quinqueloculina

Wilson44691 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
HauerininaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 1572 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 1572 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1572 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 1572 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 8 of 1572 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 1572 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 1572 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 42 of 1572 occurrencesEocene — about 99 of 1572 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 88 of 1572 occurrencesMiocene — about 231 of 1572 occurrencesPliocene — about 155 of 1572 occurrencesPleistocene — about 863 of 1572 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 4 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 5 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 8 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 16 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 28 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 39 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 28 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 51 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 62 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 100 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 102 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 1087 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

1,572 occurrences of Quinqueloculina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1,572 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

88 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WSinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WChungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°ERoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WCaloosahatchee — 25.91°N, 81.36°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°EAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.57°N, 7.52°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°E

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The named rock units Quinqueloculina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,288 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Quinqueloculina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Quinqueloculina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,255 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,289 sites for Quinqueloculina, 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

218 references

Each of the 1,572 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. 206 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 content2

Picture of Quinqueloculina

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Quinqueloculina sp. · l-cb

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 1826