Discammina eocenica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscamminaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Discammina eocenica on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
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The named rock units Discammina eocenica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discammina eocenica and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Discammina eocenica and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Cassidulina crassipunctata4 sites
- Robulus warmani4 sites
- Anomalina californiensis3 sites
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus3 sites
- Cyclammina clarki3 sites
- Cyclammina incisa3 sites
- Gyroidina orbicularis3 sites
- Plectina ruthenica3 sites
- Plectofrondicularia vaughani3 sites
- Robulus arcuatostriatus3 sites
- Robulus propinquus3 sites
- Buliminella subfusiformis2 sites
- Eponides kleinpelli2 sites
- Plectofrondicularia miocenica2 sites
- Robulus simplex2 sites
- Virgulina bramlettei2 sites
- Cassidulina globosa1 site
- Gaudryina1 site
- Gaudryina laevigata1 site
- Gyroidina planulata1 site
- Karreriella barbati1 site
- Lagena strumosa1 site
- Marginulina adunca1 site
- Marginulina eximia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Discammina eocenica, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Discammina eocenica
- 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 Discammina eocenica 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.
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What may have been alongside itDiscammina through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mllory 1959