Vaginulina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NodosariidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 239 million years on record.
The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.
220 occurrences of Vaginulina 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
220 occurrences- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
- Early Jurassic12%
- Middle Jurassic12%
- Late Jurassic8%
- Early Cretaceous18%
- Late Cretaceous6%
- Paleocene3%
- Oligoceneunder 1%
- Miocene15%
- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene20%
- 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
21 formations
- Sundays River Formation7
- Ihungia Formation5
- Castillo Pedroso Formation5
- Camino Formation5
- fahdène Formation3
- Djangura Formation3
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The named rock units Vaginulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 174 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Vaginulina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vaginulina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
995 taxa- Lenticulina85 sites
- Dentalina73 sites
- Nodosaria63 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)61 sites
- Astacolus47 sites
- Planulina43 sites
- Ammobaculites41 sites
- Eoguttulina40 sites
- Frondicularia39 sites
- Lagena39 sites
- Pyrgo37 sites
- Textularia36 sites
- Citharina34 sites
- Gaudryina34 sites
- Hoeglundina34 sites
- Laevidentalina33 sites
- Palmula33 sites
- Oridorsalis32 sites
- Quinqueloculina32 sites
- Globocassidulina30 sites
- Lingulina29 sites
- Saracenaria28 sites
- Dorothia27 sites
- Reinholdella27 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 186 sites for Vaginulina, 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
51 references- Benthic foraminifers and palaeoenvironment in the Lower and Middle Jurassic of the Western Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Northern Spain)29
- Site U148326
- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 1 Foraminiferen, Anthozoen.18
- Foraminiferal assemblages of the uppermost Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian of the Wielun Upland and their stratigraphic importance13
- Site U151712
- Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus10
- Site U14899
- The Foraminifera of the Late Valangian to Hautverian (Early Cretaceous) Sundays River Formation of the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa7
- Lower Toarcian ammonite and foraminifera assemblages in the San Miguel de Aguayo Section (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain)5
- Palaeoclimatic and biotic changes during the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) at the southern Laurasian Seaway (Basque–Cantabrian Basin, northern Spain)5
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and tectonics of Lower Miocene rocks in the Waipatiki/Mangatuna area, southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand5
- Le Crétacé inférieur de l'arc subalpin de Castellane entre l'Asse et le Var: Stratigraphy et Sédimentologie5
Each of the 220 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. 39 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 content0
No picture of Vaginulina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vaginulina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vaginulina 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 itNodosariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826