Berthelina

Berthelina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–97 Mya — about 1 occurrence97–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence95–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya83.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Berthelina on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

17 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

1 formation

Lindi — 10.03°S, 39.64°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°E

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The named rock units Berthelina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Berthelina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Berthelina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Berthelina, 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

4 references

Each of the 17 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Berthelina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Berthelina 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 itGavelinellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Malapris 1965