Globoconusa

Globoconusa

Derek Bayliss · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
GlobigerininaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 38 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 7 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 10 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 10 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

41 occurrences of Globoconusa on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

41 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

6 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°ECorsicana — 31.08°N, 96.83°WRoca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°ETopolovo — 41.90°N, 26.50°EJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°W

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The named rock units Globoconusa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globoconusa and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Globoconusa and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Globoconusa, 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

11 references

Each of the 41 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 Globoconusa

Source
GBIF
Credit
Derek Bayliss
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlobigerininae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Khaliov 1956