Saccammina sphaerica

Saccammina sphaerica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SaccamminaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesEocene — about 8 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37.71 Mya27.3 Mya56.7 Mya22.4 Mya

12 occurrences of Saccammina sphaerica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

12 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

2 formations

Chungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°EWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°E

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The named rock units Saccammina sphaerica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccammina sphaerica and its relatives

Eocene

Where Saccammina sphaerica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Saccammina sphaerica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 12 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. 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 Saccammina sphaerica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Saccammina sphaerica was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itSaccammina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huang et al. 2019