Elphidiidae

Elphidiidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1755 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 1755 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 25 of 1755 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 87 of 1755 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 386 of 1755 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 182 of 1755 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1039 of 1755 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 19 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 19 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 18 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 17 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 25 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 48 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 34 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 35 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 58 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 72 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 41 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 49 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 83 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 216 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 994 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,755 occurrences of Elphidiidae 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

1,755 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

74 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ECanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WRosignano Limestone — 43.40°N, 10.47°ERosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKadyny — 54.27°N, 19.43°EAl Khums — 30.50°N, 13.50°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°EBredasdorp — 34.53°S, 20.03°EAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EBolognano — 42.17°N, 14.04°ECaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WCroatan — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBurgeschleinitz — 48.63°N, 15.78°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°W

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The named rock units Elphidiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,409 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elphidiidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elphidiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,303 sites for Elphidiidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

168 references

Each of the 1,755 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. 156 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 Elphidiidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Elphidiidae 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 itRotalioidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Galloway 1933