Asterigerinoidea

Asterigerinoidea is a superfamily of Foraminifera included in the order Rotaliida, proposed by Loeblich and Tappan in 1988.

Asterigerinoidea

Carlos Natário · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 17 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences27.3 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Asterigerinoidea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

17 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

4 formations

Ebelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°E

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The named rock units Asterigerinoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Asterigerinoidea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Asterigerinoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

436 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Asterigerinoidea, 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

13 references

Each of the 17 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. 1 further reference is 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 Asterigerinoidea

Credit
Carlos Natário
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Asterigerinoidea 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRotaliida through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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