Caucasina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RotaliinaPBDB
- 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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
6 occurrences of Caucasina on record. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Ebelsberg Formation2
- Poronai Formation1
- Hesquiat Formation · Carmanah Group1
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The named rock units Caucasina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Gyroidina4 sites
- Uvigerina4 sites
- Cassidulina3 sites
- Globigerina3 sites
- Globobulimina3 sites
- Bathysiphon2 sites
- Bolivina2 sites
- Buccella2 sites
- Bulimina2 sites
- Cancris2 sites
- Cyclammina2 sites
- Dentalina2 sites
- Elphidium2 sites
- Globorotalia2 sites
- Guembelina cubensis2 sites
- Haplophragmoides2 sites
- Lenticulina2 sites
- Melonis2 sites
- Siphonodosaria2 sites
- Acila1 site
- Alabamina1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Ammonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Caucasina, 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
4 references- Oceanographic conditions as a trigger for the formation of an Early Miocene (Aquitanian) Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Central Paratethys Sea2
- Biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations (Early Tertiary) of the Nootka Sound area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia2
- An Eocene cold-water molluscan assemblage from thr Poronai Formation in the Mikasa area, central Hokkaido, northern Japan1
- Cenozoic micropaleontological biostratigraphy of the LASMO/NSR(V)L Cohasset Producer CP1 P-51 well, Scotian Shelf1
Each of the 6 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. 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 content1
Picture of Caucasina
- 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 Caucasina 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 itRotaliina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.