Cibicidoides

Cibicidoides is an extant genus of benthic foraminifera, with the oldest known species dating back to the Paleogene Period.

Cibicidoides

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 4361 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 183 of 4361 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 46 of 4361 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 610 of 4361 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 568 of 4361 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1435 of 4361 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 478 of 4361 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1028 of 4361 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 8 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 72 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 83 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 20 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 14 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 45 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 68 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 95 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 126 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 111 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 144 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 187 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 196 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 211 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 282 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 242 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 311 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 333 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 511 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 1272 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

4,361 occurrences of Cibicidoides 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

4,361 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

22 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ELefipán — 42.81°S, 68.32°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EIlundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WCastle Hayne — 35.24°N, 77.20°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRaging River — 47.50°N, 121.91°WZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°EGambier — 37.89°S, 140.76°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WMargas de Pamplona — 42.89°N, 0.94°WKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°EVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WArgille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°ELoncoche — 37.56°S, 69.83°WGuadaíra — 37.36°N, 5.84°W

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The named rock units Cibicidoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4,170 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cibicidoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cibicidoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

781 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,167 sites for Cibicidoides, and this reads 240 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

118 references

Each of the 4,361 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. 106 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 Cibicidoides

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CC0
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.