Abyssamina

Abyssamina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEocene — about 27 of 71 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 71 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 41 of 71 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 71 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 71 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 5 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

71 occurrences of Abyssamina 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

71 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.

Abyssamina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Abyssamina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Abyssamina, 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

7 references

Each of the 71 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. 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 Abyssamina

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

No 3D scan of Abyssamina 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 itPallaimorphininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schnitker and Tjalsma 1980