Trochammina
Searched as Trochammina bohemi. The Paleobiology Database treats Trochammina as the accepted name.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochammininaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Trochamminidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochamminidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Trochamminoidea
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Trochammina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Trochammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trochammina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Trochammina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
1,471 taxa- Ammobaculites108 sites
- Haplophragmoides79 sites
- Lenticulina59 sites
- Ammodiscus55 sites
- Nodosaria52 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)41 sites
- Eoguttulina40 sites
- Astacolus39 sites
- Dentalina36 sites
- Textularia36 sites
- Gaudryina35 sites
- Spiroplectammina35 sites
- Lingulina34 sites
- Reophax33 sites
- Glomospirella32 sites
- Glomospira30 sites
- Vaginulina28 sites
- Etherilosia etheridgei26 sites
- Sansabaina26 sites
- Frondicularia25 sites
- Reinholdella25 sites
- Calcitornella23 sites
- Neochonetes (Sommeriella) pratti23 sites
- Dorothia21 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 305 sites for Trochammina, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Trochammina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Trochammina inflata · UT-JSG:NPL:00090233.000_1
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrochammininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parker and Jones 1859