Bigenerina

Bigenerina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 306 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 25 of 224 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 224 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 224 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 224 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 224 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 224 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 224 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 224 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 224 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 224 occurrencesMiocene — about 76 of 224 occurrencesPliocene — about 28 of 224 occurrencesPleistocene — about 75 of 224 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–297 Mya — about 24 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 12 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 53 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 122 occurrences307 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

224 occurrences of Bigenerina 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

224 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

14 formations

Oread Limestone — 36.92°N, 96.28°WOread Limestone — 37.05°N, 96.41°WOread Limestone — 37.56°N, 95.98°WOread Limestone — 37.74°N, 96.04°WOread Limestone — 38.03°N, 95.86°WOread Limestone — 38.09°N, 95.84°WOread Limestone — 38.23°N, 95.74°WOread Limestone — 38.84°N, 95.39°WOread Limestone — 38.78°N, 95.19°WOread Limestone — 39.01°N, 95.30°WOread Limestone — 39.11°N, 95.11°WOread Limestone — 39.33°N, 94.93°WOread Limestone — 39.59°N, 95.00°WOread Limestone — 39.81°N, 94.87°WOread Limestone — 41.01°N, 95.88°WOread Limestone — 41.16°N, 94.90°WOread Limestone — 41.35°N, 94.30°WOread Limestone — 41.31°N, 94.20°WMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EMisfah — 22.78°N, 57.83°ELa Pasada — 35.67°N, 105.28°WKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WQom — 35.50°N, 48.42°EWordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°ECattle Creek — 25.00°S, 148.42°EGraford — 33.22°N, 97.75°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.61°W

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The named rock units Bigenerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 190 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bigenerina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bigenerina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,189 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 219 sites for Bigenerina, 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

43 references

Each of the 224 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. 31 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 content3

Picture of Bigenerina

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

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Bigenerina sp. · l-cb

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826