Nummulites variolarius

Nummulites variolarius

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Eocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41.03 Mya37.71 Mya48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

18 occurrences of Nummulites variolarius on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

18 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

4 formations

Selsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EColl de Malla Marl — 42.00°N, 2.47°E

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The named rock units Nummulites variolarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nummulites variolarius and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nummulites variolarius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Nummulites variolarius, 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

6 references

Each of the 18 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 Nummulites variolarius

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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. Lamarck 1804