Valvulina

Valvulina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 244 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 254.14 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 171 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 171 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 171 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 171 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 171 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 35 of 171 occurrencesEocene — about 41 of 171 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 61 of 171 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 171 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 171 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 171 occurrences259–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences87–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–61 Mya — about 8 occurrences61–52 Mya — about 31 occurrences52–43 Mya — about 10 occurrences43–35 Mya — about 24 occurrences35–26 Mya — about 49 occurrences26–18 Mya — about 31 occurrences18–9.0 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.0–357 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences251.902 Mya7.246 Mya259 Mya357 ka

171 occurrences of Valvulina on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

171 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

5 formations

Sinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°EPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°EBellerophon — 46.56°N, 11.73°E

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The named rock units Valvulina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 150 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Valvulina and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Valvulina and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

283 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 165 sites for Valvulina, 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

23 references

Each of the 171 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. 11 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 content1

Picture of Valvulina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Valvulina 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. d'Orbigny 1826