Fischerina
No picture of Fischerina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Fischerina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FischerininaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
- Environment
- hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Fischerina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Fischerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fischerina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Fischerina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Actinacis remesi4 sites
- Bullopora multicamerata4 sites
- Elianella elegans4 sites
- Epiphaxum4 sites
- Gypsina ogormani4 sites
- Miniacina multiformis4 sites
- Planorbulina uva4 sites
- Serpula4 sites
- Sporolithon lugeonii4 sites
- Actinacis3 sites
- Actinacis martiniana3 sites
- Agathelia asperella3 sites
- Jania nummulitica3 sites
- Lithothamnium contraversum3 sites
- Nubecularia3 sites
- Polytremacis3 sites
- Sporolithon proprium3 sites
- Actinacis porosa2 sites
- Distichoplax biserialis2 sites
- Epiphaxum murchisoni2 sites
- Girvanella minuta2 sites
- Lithophyllum dubium2 sites
- Lithophyllum quadrangulum2 sites
- Mesophyllum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fischerina, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Fischerina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Fischerina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fischerina 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFischerininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.