Bulimina marginata

Bulimina marginata

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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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 263 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 263 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 239 of 263 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 23 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 38 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 39 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 40 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 103 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

263 occurrences of Bulimina marginata 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

263 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

1 formation

Esmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°W

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The named rock units Bulimina marginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 261 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bulimina marginata and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

370 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 260 sites for Bulimina marginata, and this reads 240 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

42 references

Each of the 263 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. 30 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 content2

Picture of Bulimina marginata

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

3D model

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

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 itBulimina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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