Spiroplectammina

Spiroplectammina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 306 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 572 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 30 of 572 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 572 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 572 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 572 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 572 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 572 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 572 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 572 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 124 of 572 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 31 of 572 occurrencesEocene — about 111 of 572 occurrencesOligocene — about 68 of 572 occurrencesMiocene — about 144 of 572 occurrencesPliocene — about 21 of 572 occurrencesPleistocene — about 26 of 572 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–286 Mya — about 27 occurrences286–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 1 occurrence176–165 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–99 Mya — about 4 occurrences99–88 Mya — about 19 occurrences88–77 Mya — about 12 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 90 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 35 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 45 occurrences44–33 Mya — about 67 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 72 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 110 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 73 occurrences307 Mya11.7 ka330 Mya0 Mya

572 occurrences of Spiroplectammina on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

572 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

41 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ECallytharra — 25.88°S, 115.50°EDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°ENorthumberland — 48.83°N, 123.30°WNorthumberland — 49.17°N, 123.75°WSecond White Specks — 51.58°N, 111.00°WBedoulian — 44.40°N, 27.87°ERoca — 39.67°S, 67.53°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.11°WBelle Fourche — 49.50°N, 112.17°WKaskapau — 55.88°N, 120.00°WKaskapau — 59.98°N, 119.89°WKaskapau — 55.82°N, 118.37°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°EVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WWang Saphung — 17.60°N, 101.85°EAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WLondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°EAl Bad — 28.17°N, 34.90°EParson Bay — 48.86°N, 124.23°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°W

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The named rock units Spiroplectammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 419 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiroplectammina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Spiroplectammina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,620 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 495 sites for Spiroplectammina, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

83 references

Each of the 572 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. 71 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

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Picture of Spiroplectammina

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No 3D scan of Spiroplectammina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1927