Bulimina

Bulimina is a genus of foraminifers belonging to the family Buliminidae.

Bulimina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1977 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1977 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1977 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1977 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 1977 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 1977 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 45 of 1977 occurrencesEocene — about 170 of 1977 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 52 of 1977 occurrencesMiocene — about 291 of 1977 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 224 of 1977 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1146 of 1977 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 5 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 13 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 36 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 37 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 65 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 57 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 34 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 55 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 77 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 139 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 1449 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

1,977 occurrences of Bulimina 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

1,977 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

41 formations

Bahía Inglesa — 27.03°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.05°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.19°S, 70.95°WBahía Inglesa — 27.27°S, 70.91°WBahía Inglesa — 27.64°S, 70.89°WBahía Inglesa — 27.70°S, 70.98°WBahía Inglesa — 27.90°S, 71.10°WBahía Inglesa — 26.74°S, 70.73°WKeasey — 45.86°N, 123.33°WKeasey — 45.73°N, 123.26°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.05°S, 71.43°WKreyenhagen — 36.96°N, 120.06°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WBakhtiari — 32.06°N, 50.81°EZapallo — 0.87°N, 79.85°WStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°ERoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WGehannam — 29.24°N, 30.11°ESeca — 2.32°S, 80.78°WRaging River — 47.50°N, 121.91°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WHijikata — 34.77°N, 138.02°EHijikara — 36.30°N, 139.37°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°W

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The named rock units Bulimina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,883 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bulimina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bulimina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,458 sites for Bulimina, and this reads 240 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

146 references

Each of the 1,977 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. 134 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Bulimina

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
Bulimina marginata · l-cb

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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.

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