Kalamopsis

Kalamopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AschemocellidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 88 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 75 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 75 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 29 of 75 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 75 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 75 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 75 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 21 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 20 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya1.8 Mya96 Mya0 Mya

75 occurrences of Kalamopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

75 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

2 formations

Monte Cassio Flysch — 44.53°N, 10.92°ELincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.47°W

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The named rock units Kalamopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kalamopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Kalamopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Kalamopsis, 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

10 references

Each of the 75 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 Kalamopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kalamopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itAschemocellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Folin 1883