Buliminella
Searched as Buliminella basistriata nuda. The Paleobiology Database treats Buliminella as the accepted name.
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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 most 3.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Buliminella on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Buliminella and its relatives
EoceneWhere Buliminella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,429 taxa- Cibicidoides134 sites
- Globocassidulina94 sites
- Bolivina89 sites
- Gyroidinoides87 sites
- Bulimina80 sites
- Oridorsalis79 sites
- Brizalina73 sites
- Pullenia68 sites
- Anomalinoides66 sites
- Astrononion53 sites
- Eggerella53 sites
- Siphonodosaria53 sites
- Eubuliminella48 sites
- Foraminifera48 sites
- Globobulimina47 sites
- Pleurostomella47 sites
- Lenticulina46 sites
- Nuttallides43 sites
- Nonion42 sites
- Fursenkoina38 sites
- Cassidulina37 sites
- Fissurina36 sites
- Alabaminella weddellensis35 sites
- Chilostomella35 sites
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
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
- Credit
- BelangerForamLab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
MorphoSource was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTurrilininae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1911