Amphistegina gibbosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphisteginaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Amphistegina
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 774 ka.
5 occurrences of Amphistegina gibbosa on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
5 occurrences- Eocene20%
- Miocene20%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene20%
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
5 formations
- Bear Bluff Formation1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Brasso Formation1
- Güines Formation1
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The named rock units Amphistegina gibbosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amphistegina gibbosa and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Amphistegina gibbosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
184 taxa- Cassidulina4 sites
- Cibicides4 sites
- Hanzawaia4 sites
- Reussella4 sites
- Siphonina4 sites
- Valvulineria4 sites
- Ammonia3 sites
- Bolivina3 sites
- Bolivina marginata3 sites
- Bulimina3 sites
- Elphidium3 sites
- Elphidium discoidale3 sites
- Epistominella3 sites
- Fursenkoina3 sites
- Planulina3 sites
- Uvigerina3 sites
- Angulogerina occidentalis2 sites
- Buccella2 sites
- Cancris sagra2 sites
- Cativella2 sites
- Cupuladria biporosa2 sites
- Cupuladria canariensis2 sites
- Cymbaloporetta2 sites
- Cytherella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Amphistegina gibbosa, 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
4 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama2
- New fossil Cetaceans from the Middle Miocene of Cuba1
- A lagoonal interlude with occasional hypersalinity in the deposition of the Early-Middle Miocene Brasso Formation of Trinidad1
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas1
Each of the 5 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 Amphistegina gibbosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphistegina gibbosa 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 itAmphistegina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839