Heterostegina

Heterostegina

Alain COUETTE · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
NummulitidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 295 occurrencesEocene — about 45 of 295 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 105 of 295 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 124 of 295 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 295 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 295 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 3 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 15 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 15 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 15 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 15 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 18 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 24 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 23 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 15 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 10 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 16 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 13 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 22 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 22 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

295 occurrences of Heterostegina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

295 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

38 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EMonte S Angelo — 42.69°N, 9.32°EAntigua — 17.17°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WLagos- Portimao — 37.08°N, 8.23°WMut — 36.83°N, 33.47°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EGianti — 9.48°N, 50.82°ECastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.38°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°ECala di Labra — 41.37°N, 9.18°ETossa / Igualada — 41.55°N, 1.57°EMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMasingini — 6.17°S, 39.18°ELagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WGaj — 23.75°N, 68.74°EBateque — 26.55°N, 113.10°WZiqlag — 31.28°N, 34.62°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Heterostegina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterostegina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Heterostegina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

624 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 247 sites for Heterostegina, 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

66 references

Each of the 295 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. 54 further references are 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 Heterostegina

Credit
Alain COUETTE
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heterostegina 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNummulitidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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