Polymorphina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 135 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 135 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 42 of 135 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 135 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 42 of 135 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 135 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 135 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 13 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 9 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 10 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 17 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences72.2 Mya774 ka87 Mya0 Mya

135 occurrences of Polymorphina 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

135 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

9 formations

Roca — 38.17°S, 68.42°WRoca — 37.83°S, 68.42°WRoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WBarton Beds — 50.78°N, 1.73°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WYegua — 30.28°N, 96.93°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WSouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°EIhungia — 40.35°S, 176.28°EBathurst — 33.48°S, 26.93°EShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°W

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The named rock units Polymorphina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 108 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polymorphina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Polymorphina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

905 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 129 sites for Polymorphina, 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

24 references

Each of the 135 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. 12 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

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No picture of Polymorphina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polymorphina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Polymorphina 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.

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. d'Orbigny 1826