Buliminidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuliminoideaPBDB
- 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.
4,401 occurrences of Buliminidae 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
4,401 occurrences- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleocene1%
- Eocene7%
- Oligocene4%
- Miocene18%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene58%
- Holocene1%
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
72 formations
- Bahía Inglesa Formation25
- El Haria Formation20
- Keasey Formation16
- Ihungia Formation12
- Esmeraldas Formation12
- Ebelsberg Formation9
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The named rock units Buliminidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 4,156 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Buliminidae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Buliminidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
2,735 taxa- Uvigerina83 sites
- Bulimina78 sites
- Dentalina74 sites
- Lenticulina72 sites
- Planulina68 sites
- Nodosaria58 sites
- Cibicidoides57 sites
- Gyroidinoides55 sites
- Gaudryina47 sites
- Quinqueloculina46 sites
- Cibicides42 sites
- Elphidium42 sites
- Nonion42 sites
- Fissurina41 sites
- Pyrgo41 sites
- Melonis39 sites
- Anomalinoides38 sites
- Oridorsalis36 sites
- Bolivina35 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)35 sites
- Osangularia33 sites
- Sigmoilopsis33 sites
- Lagena32 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,159 sites for Buliminidae, 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
212 references- Site U1338282
- Site U1386207
- Site U1387167
- Site U1391166
- Site U1343163
- Frontal prism Site U1412138
- Site U1390133
- Site U1389125
- Sites U1428 and U1429118
- Input Site U1414116
- Site U1517109
- Site U1344109
Each of the 4,401 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. 200 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 content1
Picture of Buliminidae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Buliminidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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 itBuliminoidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.