Broeckinella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
5 occurrences of Broeckinella 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous40%
- Paleocene40%
- Eocene20%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Broeckinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Broeckinella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Broeckinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Lockhartia3 sites
- Kathina2 sites
- Laffitteina2 sites
- Loftusia2 sites
- Miscellanea2 sites
- Misellanea iranica2 sites
- Periloculina2 sites
- Sistanites iranica2 sites
- Vania anatolica2 sites
- Amphistegina1 site
- Assilina laminosa1 site
- Asterocyclina alticostata1 site
- Asterocyclina stellata1 site
- Bournonia1 site
- Colveraia1 site
- Cuvillierina1 site
- Dictyoptychus1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Discocyclina dispansa1 site
- Discocyclina ranikotensis1 site
- Hippurites cornucopia1 site
- Laffiteinella sp.1 site
- Linderina1 site
- Miliolida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Broeckinella, 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- A new approach to the paleoecological relationship between rudists and benthic foraminifers in Maastrichtian of Tethys basin in the Central Zagros, Iran2
- Paleoenvironmental model for Early Eocene larger benthic foraminiferal deposits from south Birjand region, east Iran1
- Maastrichtian, Danian and Thanetian beds in Dolenja Vas (NW Dinarides, Yugoslavia), microfacies foraminifers, rudists and corals1
- Un Modéle de Comblement de Plate-forme Interne Carbonatée: Santonien Supéieur-Campanien des Chaines Ibdriques Nord1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Broeckinella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Broeckinella was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.