Calcarina

Calcarina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalcarinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.72 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 19 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 6 of 19 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence258 ka–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.72 Mya11.7 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Calcarina 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

19 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

Gutingkeng — 22.62°N, 120.30°E

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The named rock units Calcarina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calcarina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Calcarina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

96 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Calcarina, 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

16 references

Each of the 19 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. 4 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 Calcarina

Credit
ja:User:NEON / commons:User:NEON_ja
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Calcarina sp. · none:none

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.

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What may have been alongside itCalcarinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.