Valvulineria tumeyensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ValvulineriaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Valvulineria tumeyensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Valvulineria tumeyensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Valvulineria tumeyensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Valvulineria tumeyensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Amphimorphina ignota1 site
- Bolivina1 site
- Bolivina gracilis1 site
- Bulimina1 site
- Bulimina jacksonensis1 site
- Cancris mexicanus1 site
- Cassidulina diversa1 site
- Chilostomella hadleyi1 site
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus1 site
- Globigerina decepta1 site
- Globorotalia (Hastigerinella)1 site
- Gyroidina1 site
- Hantkenina compressa1 site
- Nodogenerina sanctaecrucis1 site
- Plectina garzaensis1 site
- Pseudoglandulina1 site
- Robulus1 site
- Sphaeroidina gredalensis1 site
- Spiroloculina lamposa1 site
- Stichocassidulina thalmanni1 site
- Subbotina triloculinoides1 site
- Valvulineria wilcoxensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Valvulineria tumeyensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Foraminifera from the type section of the San Lorenzo Formation, Santa Cruz County, California1
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Valvulineria tumeyensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Valvulineria tumeyensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itValvulineria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Simonson 1944