Florilus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NonionidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
19 occurrences of Florilus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Eocene26%
- Oligocene32%
- Miocene26%
- Pliocene5%
- Pleistocene11%
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
6 formations
- Wuchihshan Formation4
- Slonta Formation1
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Castle Hayne Formation1
- Formación Coquimbo Formation1
- Guadaíra Formation1
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The named rock units Florilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Florilus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Florilus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
226 taxa- Ammonia7 sites
- Elphidium6 sites
- Lenticulina6 sites
- Quinqueloculina5 sites
- Haplophragmoides4 sites
- Baggina3 sites
- Bolivina3 sites
- Cibicides3 sites
- Cibicidoides3 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)3 sites
- Gaudryina hayasakai3 sites
- Hanzawaia asterizana3 sites
- Uvigerina3 sites
- Ammodiscus incertus2 sites
- Cancris auriculus2 sites
- Cribrostomoides2 sites
- Globobulimina2 sites
- Gyroidinoides2 sites
- Melonis2 sites
- Nonion2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Ostracoda2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Pecten2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Florilus, 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
13 references- Benthic foraminiferal fauna and sedimen provenance of Eocene syn-rift sequences in Taiwan: implication for onset of Asian epi-continental marginal seas off China coast4
- Biostratigraphy of the Vicksburgian Equivalent at Toledo Bend Dam Site, Louisiana and Texas3
- Post-Eocene strata of the southern Viking Graben, northern North Sea; integrated biostratigraphic, strontium isotopic and lithostratigraphic study2
- Late Miocene Cymodocea seagrass in the Guadalquivir Basin (southern Spain)1
- First Emilian record of the boreal-affinity bivalve Portlandia impressa Perri, 1975 from Montefiore dell'Aso (Marche, Italy)1
- Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas1
- Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 961
- The early Pliocene mammal assemblage of Val di Pugna (Tuscany, Italy) in the light of calcareous plankton biostratigraphical data and paleoecological observations1
- Tawadros, 20011
- The Burdigalian historical stratotype in the Rhodanian area1
- Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India1
- Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain1
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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Florilus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Florilus 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.
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What may have been alongside itNonionidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monfort 1808