Thurammina

Thurammina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaccamminidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 366 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 35 occurrencesSilurian — about 3 of 35 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 35 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 20 of 35 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 35 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 35 occurrences451–437 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences437–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–384 Mya — about 4 occurrences370–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–343 Mya — about 2 occurrences343–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–290 Mya — about 15 occurrences169–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence432.9 Mya66 Mya451 Mya48 Mya

35 occurrences of Thurammina on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

35 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

15 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 36.75°N, 96.31°WOread Limestone — 36.98°N, 96.29°WOread Limestone — 37.13°N, 96.20°WOread Limestone — 37.24°N, 96.07°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 38.39°N, 95.62°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WKambuhel — 49.38°N, 20.67°EKambuhel — 48.78°N, 17.52°EHagen-Balve — 51.37°N, 7.86°EEdwardsville — 39.75°N, 86.67°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WCelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°ERockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WMuldraugh — 40.04°N, 86.87°WVargas Pena Shale — 25.38°S, 57.27°WWayne — 35.38°N, 88.00°WHolder — 32.96°N, 105.92°WCabeca — 37.08°N, 8.25°WBrandon Bridge — 43.00°N, 88.00°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°W

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The named rock units Thurammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thurammina and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Thurammina and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

659 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Thurammina, 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

19 references

Each of the 35 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. 7 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 Thurammina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itSaccamminidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.