Sphaeroidinellopsis

Sphaeroidinellopsis

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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 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 1938 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 1938 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 1938 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 1938 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 1938 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1140 of 1938 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 749 of 1938 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 1938 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 24 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 43 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 95 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 212 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 469 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 885 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 194 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

1,938 occurrences of Sphaeroidinellopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,938 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

4 formations

Yorktown — 36.45°N, 77.09°WYorktown — 37.04°N, 76.36°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Sphaeroidinellopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,932 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphaeroidinellopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sphaeroidinellopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

570 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,334 sites for Sphaeroidinellopsis, 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

77 references

Each of the 1,938 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. 65 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 content1

Picture of Sphaeroidinellopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Sphaeroidinellopsis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Banner and Blow 1959