Palmula

Searched as Palmula sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Palmula as the accepted name.

Palmula is an extinct genus of foraminifera which is known from a number of species found in rocks dating from near the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. A genus of polycotylid plesiosaur was named Palmula in 2007, but because the name was already in use, the plesiosaur was renamed, becoming Palmulasaurus.

Palmula

Derek Bayliss · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
VaginulinidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 151 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 136 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 37 of 136 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 48 of 136 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 7 of 136 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 136 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 38 of 136 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 136 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 136 occurrencesEocene203–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–192 Mya — about 3 occurrences192–186 Mya — about 12 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 12 occurrences180–175 Mya — about 9 occurrences175–169 Mya — about 24 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 23 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–152 Mya — about 6 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 20 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–40 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences40–34 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences192.9 Mya41.03 Mya203 Mya34 Mya

136 occurrences of Palmula on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

136 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

11 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ERoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.24°S, 176.24°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EChenaibo — 45.42°N, 142.02°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°ERenggeri-Ton — 46.83°N, 5.97°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°ETropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.66°WLa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WEl Gharaq — 29.24°N, 30.11°EGehannam — 29.24°N, 30.11°E

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The named rock units Palmula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 94 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palmula and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Palmula and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

401 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Palmula, 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

16 references

Each of the 136 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. 4 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 Palmula

Source
GBIF
Credit
Derek Bayliss
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palmula 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 itVaginulinidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lea 1833