Elongobula

Elongobula

H. M. S. Challenger Expedition · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BuliminoididaePBDB
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 most 1.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 1.9 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.8–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.0–960 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences960 ka–880 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences880 ka–800 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences800 ka–720 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences720 ka–640 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences640 ka–560 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences560 ka–480 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480 ka–400 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences400 ka–320 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240 ka–160 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160 ka–80 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Elongobula 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

3 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.

Elongobula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elongobula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elongobula, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Elongobula

Source
GBIF
Credit
H. M. S. Challenger Expedition
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elongobula was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itBuliminoididae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1939