Pyrulina

Pyrulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 132 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 236 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 236 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 236 occurrencesEocene — about 36 of 236 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 80 of 236 occurrencesMiocene — about 75 of 236 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 236 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 236 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 7 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 13 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 10 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 20 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 34 occurrences28–23 Mya — about 35 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 29 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 25 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 17 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences132.6 Mya129 ka140 Mya0 Mya

236 occurrences of Pyrulina on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

236 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

6 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WSundays River — 33.47°S, 25.60°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°ELa Colonia — 42.83°S, 68.45°WLefipán — 42.81°S, 68.32°W

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The named rock units Pyrulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 212 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pyrulina and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Pyrulina and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

596 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 232 sites for Pyrulina, 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

29 references

Each of the 236 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. 17 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 Pyrulina

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 1839