Epistomina

No picture of Epistomina was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epistomina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EpistomininaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Epistominidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Epistominidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 181 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Jurassic — about 5 of 119 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 33 of 119 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 15 of 119 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 54 of 119 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 119 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 119 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 119 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 119 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 119 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences184–177 Mya — about 3 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 5 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 22 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 13 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 7 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 3 occurrences144–138 Mya — about 4 occurrences138–131 Mya — about 31 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 10 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 5 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences184.2 Mya2.58 Mya197 Mya0 Mya

119 occurrences of Epistomina on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

119 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

17 formations

Sundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.78°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°EDhruma — 26.25°N, 44.82°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.30°N, 46.53°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 23.90°N, 46.53°ELindi — 10.03°S, 39.64°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°EJubaila Lst. — 24.84°N, 46.25°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EDenton — 32.75°N, 97.25°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EKlo Tho — 16.00°N, 98.87°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WL'Ammonitico Rosso Inférieur — 35.68°N, 0.92°WMarrat — 24.25°N, 46.08°EChipping Norton Limestone — 51.99°N, 1.80°WButano — 37.18°N, 122.14°WDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°E

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The named rock units Epistomina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Epistomina and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Epistomina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

632 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Epistomina, 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

32 references

Each of the 119 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. 20 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Epistomina flinti · AMNH:FI:19807

No picture of Epistomina was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epistomina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.