Saccammina

Saccammina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaccammininaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 358 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 95 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 95 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 10 of 95 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 95 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 33 of 95 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 95 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesEocene — about 24 of 95 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 95 occurrences373–360 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences360–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–248 Mya — about 10 occurrences174–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences112–99 Mya — about 29 occurrences99–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–50 Mya — about 18 occurrences50–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences358.86 Mya11.7 ka373 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Saccammina on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

95 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

12 formations

Westgate — 51.58°N, 111.00°WWestgate — 53.00°N, 110.17°WNaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.25°N, 22.08°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.30°N, 21.00°EChungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°ESundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°EBelle Fourche — 51.58°N, 111.00°WZalgiris — 54.82°N, 20.25°EZalgiris — 54.62°N, 21.20°EMonte Cassio Flysch — 44.53°N, 10.92°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ESappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSecond White Specks — 51.58°N, 111.00°WOread Limestone — 36.98°N, 96.29°W

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The named rock units Saccammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccammina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Saccammina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Saccammina, 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

16 references

Each of the 95 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. 4 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 Saccammina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saccammina 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 itSaccammininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sars in Carpenter 1869