Eulepidina

Eulepidina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidocyclinidaePBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesOligocene — about 51 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 70 occurrencesMiocene34–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 5 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya15.98 Mya34.4 Mya11.1 Mya

70 occurrences of Eulepidina on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

70 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

6 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°ECastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.38°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EManiyara Fort — 23.46°N, 68.60°EManiyara Fort — 23.08°N, 68.70°EFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WPesco Falcone — 42.17°N, 14.10°E

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The named rock units Eulepidina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eulepidina and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Eulepidina and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Eulepidina, 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

14 references

Each of the 70 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. 2 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 Eulepidina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eulepidina 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.