Gyroidina

Gyroidina is a genus of foraminifera belonging to the family Gavelinellidae of the superfamily Chilostomelloidea and the order Rotaliida. Its temporal range is the Holocene.

Gyroidina

Anna Tikhonova, Sofia Merenkova, Sergei Korsun and Alexander Matul · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
GavellinellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 393 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 111 of 393 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 393 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 51 of 393 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 56 of 393 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 35 of 393 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 393 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 393 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–69 Mya — about 49 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 56 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 6 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 9 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 17 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 14 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 31 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 11 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 9 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 18 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 108 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

393 occurrences of Gyroidina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

393 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

30 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WSan Lorenzo — 37.15°N, 122.14°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WCluj Limestone — 46.70°N, 23.56°ECluj Limestone — 46.75°N, 23.38°ERoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WPysht — 48.15°N, 123.86°WChenaibo — 45.42°N, 142.02°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WAbu Qada — 28.68°N, 32.42°EVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WTorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°EKeasey — 45.86°N, 123.33°WHesquiat — 49.86°N, 127.14°WHesquiat — 49.53°N, 126.57°WBahía Inglesa — 27.64°S, 70.89°WBahía Inglesa — 27.70°S, 70.97°WZallah — 30.32°N, 13.32°EKreyenhagen — 36.96°N, 120.06°WHijikara — 36.30°N, 139.37°EAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EMangaoranga — 40.75°S, 175.60°ECoamo — 18.33°N, 66.32°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°E

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The named rock units Gyroidina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 240 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyroidina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Gyroidina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,321 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 312 sites for Gyroidina, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

63 references

Each of the 393 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. 51 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 content2

Picture of Gyroidina

Credit
Anna Tikhonova, Sofia Merenkova, Sergei Korsun and Alexander Matul
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Gyroidina sp. · l-cb

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826