Sphaeroidinella

Sphaeroidinella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1008 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 1008 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 1008 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 1008 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 67 of 1008 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 298 of 1008 occurrencesPleistocene — about 635 of 1008 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 0.0 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 26 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 79 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 326 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 559 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,008 occurrences of Sphaeroidinella 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

1,008 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

Escudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°W

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The named rock units Sphaeroidinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,006 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeroidinella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Sphaeroidinella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 985 sites for Sphaeroidinella, 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

80 references

Each of the 1,008 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. 68 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Sphaeroidinella

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGlobigerinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927