Spiroplectammina carinata

Spiroplectammina carinata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 74 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 72 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 74 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 10 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 10 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 10 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.2–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27.3 Mya5.333 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

74 occurrences of Spiroplectammina carinata 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

74 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

Gatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°EKhadum — 44.49°N, 40.18°E

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The named rock units Spiroplectammina carinata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiroplectammina carinata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spiroplectammina carinata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Spiroplectammina carinata, and this reads all 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

7 references

Each of the 74 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. 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 Spiroplectammina carinata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 1846)