Nummulitidae

Nummulitidae is a family of foraminifera in the order Rotaliida. It was described in 1827 by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville.

Nummulitidae

Wilson44691 · 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
NummulitaceaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 318 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1708 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1708 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 1708 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 1708 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 174 of 1708 occurrencesEocene — about 773 of 1708 occurrencesOligocene — about 371 of 1708 occurrencesMiocene — about 290 of 1708 occurrencesPliocene — about 27 of 1708 occurrencesPleistocene — about 55 of 1708 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences121–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–55 Mya — about 205 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 304 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 463 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 375 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 188 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 165 occurrences318.6 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

1,708 occurrences of Nummulitidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

1,708 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

181 formations

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°EMarne di Priabona — 45.52°N, 11.54°EMarne di Priabona — 45.43°N, 11.55°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ETortonian Limestone — 35.00°N, 24.76°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°EEl Bosque — 37.90°N, 1.57°WLakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ENummulitic Limestone — 43.78°N, 7.56°ENummulitic Limestone — 44.00°N, 7.74°ENummulitic Limestone — 43.96°N, 6.69°ENummulitic Limestone — 43.38°N, 6.87°EGuitar Formation — 9.12°N, 92.80°EPrang — 25.18°N, 92.38°EPrang — 25.18°N, 91.77°EDobranberg Formation — 46.83°N, 14.53°EGheldeis — 10.42°N, 51.27°EGheldeis — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGheldeis — 10.28°N, 50.15°EGheldeis — 9.23°N, 50.67°EGheldeis — 9.53°N, 50.68°EGheldeis — 9.60°N, 50.78°EGheldeis — 9.75°N, 50.78°EGheldeis — 9.32°N, 50.40°EGheldeis — 7.87°N, 49.80°EGheldeis — 8.85°N, 49.32°ESubathu — 29.78°N, 78.65°ESubathu — 30.98°N, 77.02°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WLakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EMolare — 44.50°N, 8.48°EMokattam — 30.03°N, 31.26°EMokattam — 28.00°N, 30.75°EMokattam — 29.98°N, 31.13°EMokattam — 28.65°N, 30.83°EMokattam — 28.73°N, 30.92°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.45°N, 11.58°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°ETavertet/Girona Limestone — 41.98°N, 3.20°ETavertet/Girona Limestone — 42.00°N, 2.47°EBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WBarra Honda — 9.40°N, 84.15°WBarra Honda — 9.41°N, 84.16°WBarra Honda — 9.55°N, 84.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.03°WLut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°ELut platform — 32.71°N, 59.29°EGianti — 11.03°N, 51.03°EGianti — 11.28°N, 51.08°EGianti — 9.48°N, 50.82°EQom — 33.78°N, 51.73°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°E

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The named rock units Nummulitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 157 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 560 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nummulitidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nummulitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,180 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 838 sites for Nummulitidae, 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

250 references

Each of the 1,708 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. 238 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 Nummulitidae

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nummulitidae 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.

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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What may have been alongside itNummulitacea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1827