Saudia labyrinthica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaudiaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Saudia labyrinthica 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
- Sinjar Formation3
- Alveolina- Nummulites Limestone Formation · Kras Group1
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The named rock units Saudia labyrinthica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saudia labyrinthica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Saudia labyrinthica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Discocyclina8 sites
- Orbitolites8 sites
- Assilina7 sites
- Kathina7 sites
- Nummulites7 sites
- Opertorbitolites6 sites
- Alveolina aramaea5 sites
- Alveolina dolioliformis5 sites
- Alveolina ellipsoidalis5 sites
- Alveolina pasticillata5 sites
- Corallinales5 sites
- Glomalveolina lepidula5 sites
- Gypsina5 sites
- Kathina subsphaerica5 sites
- Lacazina blumenthali5 sites
- Miliolida5 sites
- Ranikothalia sindensis5 sites
- Rotaliida5 sites
- Soriella bitlisica5 sites
- Textulariida5 sites
- Thaumatoporella5 sites
- Hottingerina lukasi4 sites
- Alveolina2 sites
- Biloculina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Saudia labyrinthica, 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
4 references- Depositional History of a Paleogene Carbonate Ramp (Western Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece)5
- Microfossils and carbonate microfacies of Sinjar Formation, west of Sulaimaniyah city, Kurdistan region, NE Iraq2
- Carbonate microfacies analysis of Sinjar Formation from Qara Dagh mountains, south-west of Sulaimani city, Kurdistan region, Iraq1
- Evolution of shallow benthic communities during the Late Paleocene-earliest Eocene transition in the Northern Tethys (SW Slovenia)1
Each of the 9 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. 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 Saudia labyrinthica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Saudia labyrinthica 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 itSaudia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Grimsdale 1952)