Buliminella

Buliminella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 215 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 215 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 20 of 215 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 215 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 94 of 215 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 215 occurrencesPleistocene — about 44 of 215 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 9 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 10 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 9 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 15 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 12 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 21 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 21 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences83.6 Mya129 ka87 Mya0 Mya

215 occurrences of Buliminella 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

215 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

18 formations

Roca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WPensacola — 30.19°N, 88.90°WAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WSan Lorenzo — 37.16°N, 122.13°WMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WBahía Inglesa — 27.05°S, 70.79°WBahía Inglesa — 27.27°S, 70.91°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Buliminella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 185 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buliminella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Buliminella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 207 sites for Buliminella, 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

51 references

Each of the 215 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. 39 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 content2

Picture of Buliminella

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
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 itTurrilininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1911