Fissurina
Searched as Fissurina orbignana. The Paleobiology Database treats Fissurina as the accepted name.
No picture of Fissurina was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Fissurina itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia 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 Fissurina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BulimininaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fissurina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous59%
- Paleocene41%
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
1 formation
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group2
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The named rock units Fissurina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fissurina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Fissurina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
992 taxa- Uvigerina156 sites
- Cibicidoides153 sites
- Oridorsalis107 sites
- Gyroidinoides91 sites
- Pyrgo91 sites
- Globocassidulina89 sites
- Melonis85 sites
- Bulimina80 sites
- Cassidulina71 sites
- Lenticulina70 sites
- Planulina69 sites
- Pleurostomella64 sites
- Quinqueloculina63 sites
- Lagena61 sites
- Dentalina58 sites
- Sigmoilopsis58 sites
- Globobulimina pacifica56 sites
- Pullenia56 sites
- Nodosaria55 sites
- Hoeglundina54 sites
- Bolivina51 sites
- Cibicides50 sites
- Eggerella50 sites
- Melonis barleeanum49 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 858 sites for Fissurina, and this reads 240 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 2 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 content2
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Fissurina sp. · l-cb
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No picture of Fissurina was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Fissurina itself, so it was not used.
Wikipedia 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 Fissurina, 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBulimininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1850