Sphaerogypsina globulus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphaerogypsinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 47 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 610 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
26 occurrences of Sphaerogypsina globulus 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
26 occurrences- Eocene54%
- Miocene27%
- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene11%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
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The named rock units Sphaerogypsina globulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sphaerogypsina globulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sphaerogypsina globulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Alveolina9 sites
- Discocyclina8 sites
- Fabiania cassis8 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides8 sites
- Nummulites8 sites
- Pseudogypsina multiformis8 sites
- Rotaliida8 sites
- Sporolithon8 sites
- Amphistegina7 sites
- Cibicidoides7 sites
- Elphidium7 sites
- Foraminifera5 sites
- Archaeolithothamnium4 sites
- Bolivina4 sites
- Cibicides4 sites
- Amphistegina lessonii3 sites
- Belzungia3 sites
- Clypeina3 sites
- Discorbinella3 sites
- Globocassidulina3 sites
- Nummulites globulus3 sites
- Operculina3 sites
- Quinqueloculina lamarckiana3 sites
- Acervulina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Sphaerogypsina globulus, 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
7 references- Facies and palaeoecology of rhodoliths and acervulinid macroids in the Eocene of the Krappfeld (Austria)8
- A study of biostratigraphy of Sinjar Formation in selected sections from northern Iraq6
- Site U14646
- Site U14593
- Site U14581
- Site U13981
- The Quilon Limestone, Kerala Basin, India: an archive for Miocene Indo-Pacific seagrass beds1
Each of the 26 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 Sphaerogypsina globulus
- 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 Sphaerogypsina globulus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSphaerogypsina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1848