Asterigerina

Asterigerina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsterigerinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 128 occurrencesEocene — about 10 of 128 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 128 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 65 of 128 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 128 occurrencesPleistocene — about 21 of 128 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 15 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 13 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 6 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

128 occurrences of Asterigerina 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

128 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

15 formations

Lower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ECalcare Massiccio — 42.93°N, 11.87°EClacare di Mendicino — 39.18°N, 16.27°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WLeitha — 47.81°N, 16.63°EClays of Ypres — 51.25°N, 4.28°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WNago Limestone — 46.05°N, 11.12°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EButano — 37.18°N, 122.14°WHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.32°WDereciflik — 37.81°N, 29.37°EGüines — 22.98°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Asterigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 104 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterigerina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Asterigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,001 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Asterigerina, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

33 references

Each of the 128 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. 21 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 Asterigerina

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

No 3D scan of Asterigerina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAsterigerinidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839