Trifarina

Trifarina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UvigerinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Uvigerinidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 607 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 607 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 19 of 607 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 607 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 76 of 607 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 100 of 607 occurrencesPleistocene — about 382 of 607 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 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 10 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 15 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 40 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 115 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 340 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

607 occurrences of Trifarina 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

607 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

7 formations

Ihungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WHesquiat — 49.67°N, 126.87°W

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The named rock units Trifarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 596 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trifarina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Trifarina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

330 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 517 sites for Trifarina, 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

45 references

Each of the 607 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. 33 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 content3

Picture of Trifarina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Trifarina angulosa · l-cb

3D model

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

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.