Spirotextularia

Spirotextularia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 62 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 62 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 62 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 62 occurrencesPleistocene — about 33 of 62 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

62 occurrences of Spirotextularia 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

62 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

1 formation

Yazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°W

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The named rock units Spirotextularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 61 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spirotextularia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Spirotextularia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

162 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Spirotextularia, 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

8 references

Each of the 62 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 Spirotextularia

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

No 3D scan of Spirotextularia 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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What may have been alongside itSpiroplectamminidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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