Fabiania cassis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FabianiaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
17 occurrences of Fabiania cassis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Fabiania cassis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fabiania cassis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fabiania cassis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Nummulites15 sites
- Pseudogypsina multiformis13 sites
- Rotaliida13 sites
- Sporolithon13 sites
- Alveolina11 sites
- Discocyclina10 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides10 sites
- Sphaerogypsina globulus8 sites
- Orbitolites5 sites
- Miliolida4 sites
- Acervulina linearis3 sites
- Corallinophycidae3 sites
- Alveolina elliptica2 sites
- Asterigerina2 sites
- Asterocyclina2 sites
- Borelis2 sites
- Chapmanina gassinensis2 sites
- Corallinales2 sites
- Dasycladales2 sites
- Globigerinatheka2 sites
- Gypsina2 sites
- Gyroidinella magna2 sites
- Haddonia2 sites
- Halimeda2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Fabiania cassis, 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
3 references- Facies and palaeoecology of rhodoliths and acervulinid macroids in the Eocene of the Krappfeld (Austria)13
- Palaeoecological significance of coral−encrusting foraminiferan associations: A case−study from the Upper Eocene of northern Italy2
- Depositional History of a Paleogene Carbonate Ramp (Western Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece)2
Each of the 17 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Fabiania cassis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFabiania through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oppenheim 1896