Elphidium discoidale

Elphidium discoidale

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.9 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Elphidium discoidale 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

11 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

8 formations

Acredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°W

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The named rock units Elphidium discoidale has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Elphidium discoidale and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Elphidium discoidale and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

535 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Elphidium discoidale, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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. 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 Elphidium discoidale

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Elphidium discoidale 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839