Bolivina marginata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BolivinaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Bolivina
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 774 ka.
6 occurrences of Bolivina marginata on record. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene33%
- Miocene17%
- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene17%
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
- Hesquiat Formation · Carmanah Group2
- Bear Bluff Formation1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group1
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The named rock units Bolivina marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Cassidulina5 sites
- Cibicides5 sites
- Elphidium4 sites
- Gyroidina4 sites
- Uvigerina4 sites
- Amphistegina gibbosa3 sites
- Bulimina3 sites
- Cancris sagra3 sites
- Dyocibicides3 sites
- Elphidium discoidale3 sites
- Epistominella3 sites
- Hanzawaia3 sites
- Planulina3 sites
- Reussella3 sites
- Rotalia3 sites
- Siphonina3 sites
- Valvulineria3 sites
- Angulogerina occidentalis2 sites
- Bigenerina2 sites
- Buccella2 sites
- Buliminella2 sites
- Cassidulinoides2 sites
- Cativella2 sites
- Cupuladria biporosa2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bolivina marginata, 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
- Biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations (Early Tertiary) of the Nootka Sound area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia2
- Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas1
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida1
Each of the 6 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 Bolivina marginata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bolivina marginata 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 itBolivina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1918