Vulvulina

Vulvulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 131 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 131 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 131 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 131 occurrencesEocene — about 27 of 131 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 131 occurrencesMiocene — about 61 of 131 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 131 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 131 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 9 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences66 Mya290 ka146 Mya0 Mya

131 occurrences of Vulvulina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

131 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

2 formations

Ihungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EButano — 37.18°N, 122.14°W

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The named rock units Vulvulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 128 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vulvulina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vulvulina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

453 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Vulvulina, 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

25 references

Each of the 131 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. 13 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 Vulvulina

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 of Vulvulina 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.