Choffatella decipiens

Choffatella decipiens

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoffatellaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 79 of 79 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous133–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 1 occurrence132–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–128 Mya — about 1 occurrence128–127 Mya — about 1 occurrence127–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 7 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–124 Mya — about 7 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 4 occurrences120–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 2 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125.77 Mya121.4 Mya133.1 Mya112.7 Mya

79 occurrences of Choffatella decipiens on record, most of them in the Early 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

79 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

24 formations

calcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.73°N, 9.42°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.75°N, 9.35°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.81°N, 9.47°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.77°N, 9.30°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.43°N, 9.35°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès inférieurs — 38.81°N, 9.47°WGrès inférieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WGrès inférieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires récifaux — 38.73°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.42°WBrachyanticlinal of Caneças — 38.82°N, 9.22°WCalcaires et silts de Ladeiras — 38.40°N, 9.22°WPapo Seco — 38.40°N, 9.22°WAssises à Orbitolines — 38.81°N, 9.47°WAssises à Orbitolines — 39.95°N, 9.42°WTalmest — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTazought — 31.15°N, 8.97°WCapas Rojas — 40.63°N, 0.10°WAmba Aradam — 9.13°N, 41.83°ECalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Polypiers de Lagosteiros — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès de Rochadouro — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès inférieur et assises à Orbitolines — 38.73°N, 9.47°WErnaga — 43.00°N, 2.77°W

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The named rock units Choffatella decipiens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choffatella decipiens and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Choffatella decipiens and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

158 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 77 sites for Choffatella decipiens, 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

8 references

Each of the 79 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 Choffatella decipiens

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlumberger 1905