Alabamina

Alabamina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 207 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 207 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 207 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 82 of 207 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 207 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 207 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 207 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 207 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 21 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 18 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 18 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 18 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 12 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 13 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 9 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.8–3.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

207 occurrences of Alabamina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

207 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

12 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ELefipán — 42.81°S, 68.32°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°ERoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°ECastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WHesquiat — 49.67°N, 126.87°WLoncoche — 37.56°S, 69.83°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WLimestone unit AII — 32.22°N, 171.88°W

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The named rock units Alabamina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 155 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alabamina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Alabamina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

642 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 192 sites for Alabamina, 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

37 references

Each of the 207 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. 25 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 Alabamina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Alabamina 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. Toulmin 1941