Sphaeroidina bulloides

Sphaeroidina bulloides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 727 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 727 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 727 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 77 of 727 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 160 of 727 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 99 of 727 occurrencesPleistocene — about 378 of 727 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 16 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 16 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 16 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 16 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 19 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 23 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 16 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 17 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 22 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 18 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 16 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 24 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 41 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 116 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 339 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

727 occurrences of Sphaeroidina bulloides on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

727 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

3 formations

Ihungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°E

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The named rock units Sphaeroidina bulloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 720 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeroidina bulloides and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sphaeroidina bulloides and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

565 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 721 sites for Sphaeroidina bulloides, and this reads 240 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

65 references

Each of the 727 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. 53 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 Sphaeroidina bulloides

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphaeroidina bulloides 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 itSphaeroidina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826