Miniacina

Miniacina

Etrusko25 · Public Domain · 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
HomotrematidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 69 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 69 occurrencesPaleocene — about 34 of 69 occurrencesEocene — about 13 of 69 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 69 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 17 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 16 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–33 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–12 Mya — about 5 occurrences12–8.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.3–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka124 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Miniacina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

69 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

15 formations

Nago Limestone — 46.05°N, 11.12°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°EKambuhel Limestone — 47.54°N, 13.50°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°EKambuhel — 49.38°N, 20.67°EKambuhel — 49.37°N, 18.54°EKambuhel — 48.79°N, 17.51°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EZilina — 49.38°N, 20.45°EZilina — 49.38°N, 20.50°ECiezkowice Sandstone — 49.73°N, 20.72°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ELindos Acropolis — 35.92°N, 27.83°EArguis — 42.37°N, 0.57°WTrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°EKambuhel Limestone — 48.57°N, 17.39°EKravarikovci — 49.11°N, 18.44°EBiely Potok — 49.34°N, 19.65°EGüines — 22.98°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Miniacina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Miniacina and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Miniacina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Miniacina, 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

26 references

Each of the 69 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. 14 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 Miniacina

Credit
Etrusko25
Licence
Public Domain
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.