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Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina

Globigerinidae

Taxonomy
Globigerina seminulina was named by Schwager (1866).

It was recombined as Sphaeroidinella seminulina by Kennett (1973); it was recombined as Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina by Kennett and Srinivasan (1983), Haig (2012), Lam and Leckie (2020).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1866Globigerina seminulina Schwager
1959Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens Blow
1973Sphaeroidinella seminulina Kennett
1983Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Kennett and Srinivasan
2012Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Haig
2020Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina Lam and Leckie

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomChromistaCavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdomRhizaria()
phylumForaminifera(Eichwald 1830)
superfamilyGlobigerinoidea
RankNameAuthor
familyGlobigerinidaeCarpenter et al. 1862
genusSphaeroidinellopsis
speciesseminulina()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Invalid names: Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens Blow 1959 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Locomotion: stationaryo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: omnivoreo
Created: 2007-11-28 00:47:02
Modified: 2009-05-20 05:31:44
Source: o = order
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Santonian to the top of the Holocene or 85.70000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (1180 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (250402)
Santonian85.7 - 83.6Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (249016)
Paleogene66.0 - 23.04South Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (262638)
Cenozoic66.0 - 0.0Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (249012 249013 249014 249015 250403)
Oligocene33.9 - 23.04North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (254697 254698)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98South Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (249327 249328 249329 249330 249505 249509 249510)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (253586 253816 253817)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333North Atlantic Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (260230 260232 260234 260237 260239 260241 260242 260243 260244 260245 260247 260248 260250 260251 260252 260253 260255 260258 260259 260260 260262 260264 260265 260266 260267 260268 260269 260272 262273)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333South Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (250773 250774 250780 255071)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (254675 254677 254678 254685)

Youngest occurrences
Time interval Ma Country or state PBDB collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.58Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (249499 259640)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.58Egypt (Al Buhayrah) Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (42119)
C2An.3n3.596 - 3.33North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (247411)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (254053)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117North Atlantic Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (261532 268165 268174 268175 268181)
Pleistocene2.58 - 0.0117North Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (254040 254041)
Quaternary2.58 - 0.0South Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (263248)
NN172.5 - 2.4Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (251886)
NN17 - NN182.5 - 1.9Indian Ocean Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (246258)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0South Pacific Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (264828)