Praeorbulina

Praeorbulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.032 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 114 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 106 of 114 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 114 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 114 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 23 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.6–8.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.5–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.0–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence23.04 Mya3.032 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

114 occurrences of Praeorbulina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

114 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

3 formations

Calvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCessole — 44.65°N, 8.23°EFormación Coquimbo — 30.30°S, 71.60°W

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The named rock units Praeorbulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 111 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Praeorbulina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Praeorbulina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Praeorbulina, 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

27 references

Each of the 114 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. 15 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Praeorbulina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Praeorbulina 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. Olsson 1964