Eggerella

Eggerella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ValvulinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 583 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 583 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 583 occurrencesEocene — about 15 of 583 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 38 of 583 occurrencesMiocene — about 215 of 583 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 80 of 583 occurrencesPleistocene — about 220 of 583 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 11 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 22 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 38 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 39 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 57 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 101 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 286 occurrences132.6 Mya11.7 ka140 Mya0 Mya

583 occurrences of Eggerella 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

583 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

3 formations

calcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.75°N, 9.35°WIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°W

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The named rock units Eggerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 580 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eggerella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eggerella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 569 sites for Eggerella, 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

64 references

Each of the 583 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. 52 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 Eggerella

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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.