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Kalosha ✝
Description | Kalosha is a village in South Waziristan, Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. It was the location of a missile attack that killed 12 people on 28 February 2008. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalosha, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Chromista : Foraminifera : Tubothalamea : Miliolida : Spiroloculinidae : Kalosha | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Foraminferea : Miliolida : Spiroloculinidae : Kalosha | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Kalosha Boltovskoy, 1978 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Name Published In | Boltovskoy, E. (1978). Estudio bioestratigráfico y paleontologico (Foraminiferos bentónicos) del Cenozoico Superior al este de las Islas Malvinas (DSDP Crucero 36, Sitios 327 y 329). Revista Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ''Bernardino Rivadavia. 8(2): 19-70. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Environment | hypersaline,marine (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | stationary (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | deposit feeder (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | high Mg calcite (based on Miliolina) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalosha |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Kalosha aluta species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Kalosha oceanica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1988 | Kalosha Loeblich and Tappan |
2002 | Kalosha Sepkoski, Jr. |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!