Uvigerina

Uvigerina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UvigerinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Uvigerinidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 2740 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 2740 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 51 of 2740 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 33 of 2740 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 410 of 2740 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 460 of 2740 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1764 of 2740 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 11 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 20 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 38 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 35 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 35 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 37 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 47 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 56 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 83 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 195 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 480 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 1639 occurrences48.07 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

2,740 occurrences of Uvigerina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2,740 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

36 formations

Ihungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WGehannam — 29.24°N, 30.11°EEscalante — 49.52°N, 126.55°WChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.90°WKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WKeasey — 45.73°N, 123.26°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WBahía Inglesa — 27.70°S, 70.98°WRosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WHijikata — 34.77°N, 138.02°EHijikara — 36.30°N, 139.37°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°EIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WClays of Ypres — 51.25°N, 4.28°EChoctawhatchee — 30.52°N, 86.48°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°W

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The named rock units Uvigerina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,669 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Uvigerina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Uvigerina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,327 sites for Uvigerina, 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

134 references

Each of the 2,740 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. 122 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

Media content2

Picture of Uvigerina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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. d'Orbigny 1826