Globigerinoides ruber

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobigerinoidesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 83 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.
3,071 occurrences of Globigerinoides ruber on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
3,071 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleoceneunder 1%
- Eoceneunder 1%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene6%
- Pliocene18%
- Pleistocene75%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
- Esmeraldas Formation2
- Ukari Formation · Kakegawa Group1
- Hijikara Formation · Kakegawa Group1
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Blue Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Globigerinoides ruber has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,060 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Globigerinoides ruber and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Globigerinoides ruber and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
815 taxa- Pulleniatina obliquiloculata112 sites
- Globorotalia truncatulinoides110 sites
- Orbulina universa110 sites
- Globigerina bulloides105 sites
- Globigerinella calida104 sites
- Globorotalia104 sites
- Pulleniatina97 sites
- Globorotalia (Hirsutella) scitula89 sites
- Globorotalia (Globorotalia) tumida74 sites
- Globorotalia (Menardella) menardii72 sites
- Trilobatus sacculifer71 sites
- Globigerinella siphonifera70 sites
- Neogloboquadrina acostaensis69 sites
- Neogloboquadrina dutertrei66 sites
- Globigerinoides obliquus64 sites
- Globorotalia (Menardella) limbata64 sites
- Neogloboquadrina humerosa64 sites
- Globorotalia (Hirsutella) margaritae63 sites
- Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis63 sites
- Pulleniatina praecursor62 sites
- Trilobatus immaturus62 sites
- Dentoglobigerina venezuelana61 sites
- Globigerinoides extremus61 sites
- Globorotalia multicamerata61 sites
The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,594 sites for Globigerinoides ruber, 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
115 references- Site U1389188
- Site U1474115
- Site U1478114
- Site U1463113
- Site U1386111
- Site U138794
- Site U139189
- Site U146187
- Site U147986
- Site U148580
- Site U147680
- Site U146275
Each of the 3,071 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. 103 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content3

Picture of Globigerinoides ruber
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Globigerinoides ruber · AMNH:FI:88917
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
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.
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What may have been alongside itGlobigerinoides through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1839)