Pleurostomella

Pleurostomella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleurostomellidaePBDB
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 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 818 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 818 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 818 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 818 occurrencesEocene — about 177 of 818 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 152 of 818 occurrencesMiocene — about 245 of 818 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 88 of 818 occurrencesPleistocene — about 109 of 818 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 5 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 5 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 3 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 11 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 16 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 21 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 48 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 45 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 51 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 62 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 71 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 89 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 59 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 53 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 78 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 185 occurrences113.2 Mya290 ka146 Mya0 Mya

818 occurrences of Pleurostomella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

818 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

Ihungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WRaha — 28.80°N, 34.48°E

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The named rock units Pleurostomella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 813 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurostomella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pleurostomella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 727 sites for Pleurostomella, 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

66 references

Each of the 818 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. 54 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 Pleurostomella

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
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 itPleurostomellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.