Daviesina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepitorbitoididaePBDB
- 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 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
68 occurrences of Daviesina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
68 occurrences- Late Cretaceous28%
- Paleocene63%
- Eocene9%
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
15 formations
- Baratang Formation20
- Kakara Formation5
- Lakadong Limestone Formation5
- Hochmoos Formation · Gosau Group3
- Sinjar Formation3
- Patala Formation2
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The named rock units Daviesina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Daviesina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Daviesina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
272 taxa- Distichoplax biserialis11 sites
- Miscellanea11 sites
- Lockhartia8 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium7 sites
- Quinqueloculina7 sites
- Ranikothalia7 sites
- Textularia7 sites
- Discocyclina6 sites
- Glomalveolina6 sites
- Halimeda6 sites
- Jania6 sites
- Nummulites6 sites
- Operculina6 sites
- Aberisphaera5 sites
- Discocyclina seunesi5 sites
- Ethelia5 sites
- Lithothamnion5 sites
- Orbitosiphon5 sites
- Planorbulinella5 sites
- Polystrata alba5 sites
- Assilina4 sites
- Dasycladales4 sites
- Dictyopsella4 sites
- Gaudryina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Daviesina, 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
18 references- On stratigraphy, age and depositional environment of algal limestone of middle Andaman Island, Andaman, India20
- Type specimens of Maastrichtian fossils in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden13
- Palaeocene reef complex of the Western Carpathians5
- Ziphodont Crocodilian and other biotic remains from the Paleocene-basal Eocene Kakara Formation, NW Sub-Himalaya: palaeogeographic and palaeoecologic implications5
- Carbonate buildup in the Lakadong Formation of the South Shillong Plateau, NE India: A micropaleontological perspective5
- Faziesverteilung und Fossilvergesellschaftungen im karbonatischen Flachwassser-Milieu der alpinen Oberkreide (Gosau-Formation) [Facies and fossils from the Upper Cretaceous carbonate shallow water deposits of the Eastern Alps (Gosau Formation)]4
- A study of biostratigraphy of Sinjar Formation in selected sections from northern Iraq3
- Paleogeographical development of the Myjava sedimentary area (Western Slovakia) during the existence of the Paleocene reef complex2
- Stratigraphy and economic geology of Central Salt Range2
- Ecostratigraphic implications of a Late Paleocene shallow-marine benthic community from the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, NE India1
- Calcareous algal-rich carbonate sediments from Assam shelf, N-E India: an overview of the palaeoenvironmental implications1
- Geological Evolution of the Ulukışla Basin (Late Cretaceous - Eocene) Central Anatolia, Turkey1
Each of the 68 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. 6 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 content1
Picture of Daviesina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Daviesina was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLepitorbitoididae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.