Virgulina

Virgulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 774 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 31 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 31 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence93.9 Mya2.58 Mya102 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Virgulina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

31 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

11 formations

Shoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WSan Lorenzo — 37.15°N, 122.14°WButano — 37.18°N, 122.14°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°W

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The named rock units Virgulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Virgulina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Virgulina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,302 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Virgulina, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 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 Virgulina

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

No 3D scan of Virgulina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826