Orbulina universa

Orbulina universa

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2745 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 2745 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 2745 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 2745 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 2745 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 604 of 2745 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 710 of 2745 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1399 of 2745 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 22 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 30 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 51 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 106 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 234 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 669 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1617 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

2,745 occurrences of Orbulina universa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2,745 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

16 formations

Cholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WChoctawhatchee — 30.52°N, 86.48°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EHighlands — 17.66°N, 61.75°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EArgille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°EKaplankaya — 36.90°N, 34.50°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.09°S, 71.46°WKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°EGüines — 22.98°N, 81.50°W

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The named rock units Orbulina universa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2,729 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbulina universa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Orbulina universa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

608 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 2,000 sites for Orbulina universa, 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

121 references

Each of the 2,745 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. 109 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 content2

Picture of Orbulina universa

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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.

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What may have been alongside itOrbulina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1839