Textularia gramen
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TextulariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 60 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
57 occurrences of Textularia gramen on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
57 occurrences- Late Cretaceous2%
- Eocene4%
- Miocene91%
- Pliocene4%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Textularia gramen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 52 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Textularia gramen and its relatives
MioceneWhere Textularia gramen and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
459 taxa- Spiroplectammina carinata51 sites
- Elphidium49 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus48 sites
- Turritella47 sites
- Lentigodentalium46 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita44 sites
- Nonion44 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei43 sites
- Dentalina konincki43 sites
- Globulina gibba43 sites
- Varicorbula gibba43 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata41 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella41 sites
- Guttulina problema40 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)40 sites
- Lenticulina (Robulus)40 sites
- Martinottiella communis40 sites
- Naticidae40 sites
- Reussirella40 sites
- Dentalina39 sites
- Dentalium (Pseudantilis)39 sites
- Streptodictyon39 sites
- Cibicides pseudoungerianus38 sites
- Limopsis38 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Textularia gramen, and this reads all 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
5 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 1 Foraminiferen, Anthozoen.51
- Geología del Área Carrizalillo-El Tofo, Regiones de Atacama y Coquimbo2
- The Tertiary limestone of the southern coastal regions of Cape Province, South Africa2
- Eocene stratigraphy of southern Nigeria1
- Foraminifera and Ostracoda from the Upper Cretaceous onf Need's Camp, Buffalo River, Cape Province1
Each of the 57 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Textularia gramen
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- 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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What may have been alongside itTextularia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. dOrbigny 1846