Fischerinidae
Fischerinidae is a foraminiferal family in the miliolid superfamily Nubecularioidea that comprises genera that can be free or attached, in which the proloculus is followed by an undivided tubular or spreading second chamber. Commonly, especially in free, i.e. unattached, forms the second chamber is looped around in coils. As diagnostic for the Miliolida the test wall is of imperphorate porcelaneous calcite. The aperture, which is the avenue of egress and ingress for the protoplasm, is terminal; can be rounded or slitlike.
Somin Lee, Fabrizio Frontalini and Wonchoel Lee · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CornuspiroideaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Miliolina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Miliolina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Miliolina
- Environment
- hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina
Time the record covers
At least 241 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.
30 occurrences of Fischerinidae 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
30 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 Fischerinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fischerinidae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Fischerinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Cibicidoides18 sites
- Planispirinella18 sites
- Cibicides14 sites
- Discorbinella14 sites
- Elphidium14 sites
- Foraminifera14 sites
- Quinqueloculina14 sites
- Amphistegina lessonii12 sites
- Heterolepa12 sites
- Textularia11 sites
- Amphicoryna8 sites
- Bolivina8 sites
- Sagrinella8 sites
- Amphistegina7 sites
- Triloculina7 sites
- Cancris6 sites
- Cymbaloporetta6 sites
- Lagena6 sites
- Nonionoides6 sites
- Reussella6 sites
- Siphouvigerina porrecta6 sites
- Spiroloculina6 sites
- Uvigerina6 sites
- Lenticulina5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Fischerinidae, 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- Site U146111
- Site U14629
- Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians)7
- Site U14641
- An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)1
- Bioconstrucciones del Anisiense-Ladiniense en el Trias Alpujarride [Anisian-Ladinian (Triassic) bioconstructions of the Alpujarrides, Spain]1
Each of the 30 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 Fischerinidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Somin Lee, Fabrizio Frontalini and Wonchoel Lee
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fischerinidae 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCornuspiroidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Millett 1898