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Pulvinulina
Source Data |
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Rank | genus | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Chromista : Foraminifera : Pulvinulina | ||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Pulvinulina | ||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Scientific Name | Pulvinulina | ||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 101 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | T. G. Gibson. 1983. Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53:355-453 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Pulvinulina adriatica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina allomorphinoides species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina biconvexa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina corticata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina crassa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina decipiens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina gilberti species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina helicella ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 56.0 Ma Paleocene | 56.0 Ma Paleocene | |
Pulvinulina insignis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina jarvisi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina mariannensis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina nitida species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina punctulata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Pulvinulina semipuctata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Gibson T. G. (1983) Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53, 355-453 |
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!