Bulimina elongata

Bulimina elongata

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 54 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 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences23.04 Mya1.8 Mya34.6 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Bulimina elongata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

54 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

Formación Coquimbo — 29.05°S, 71.43°WBahía Inglesa — 27.05°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 26.73°S, 70.73°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WStudienka — 48.44°N, 17.16°E

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The named rock units Bulimina elongata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bulimina elongata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bulimina elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

762 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Bulimina elongata, 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

17 references

Each of the 54 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. 5 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 Bulimina elongata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 1846