Floridina

Floridina

Alison M. Fortunato · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
OnychocellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 9 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 19 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence61.66 Mya1.8 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

19 occurrences of Floridina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

19 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

10 formations

Moodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WCrystal River Limestone — 30.77°N, 85.23°WCrystal River — 30.77°N, 85.23°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WMcBean — 33.25°N, 81.93°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WByram Marl — 32.18°N, 90.25°WKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°E

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The named rock units Floridina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Floridina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Floridina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

285 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Floridina, 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

10 references

Each of the 19 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 content2

Picture of Floridina

Credit
Alison M. Fortunato
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Robit123
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itOnychocellidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jullien 1881