Cuneolina

Cuneolina is an extinct genus of prehistoric foraminifera in the family Cuneolinidae with species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.Name brought to synonymyCuneolina angusta Cushman, 1919, a synonym for Textulariella angusta

Cuneolina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 177 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 177 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 43 of 177 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 132 of 177 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 177 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 177 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 4 occurrences127–123 Mya — about 7 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–116 Mya — about 3 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 4 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 4 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 18 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 23 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 12 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 9 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 29 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 20 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 14 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143.1 Mya72.2 Mya164 Mya54 Mya

177 occurrences of Cuneolina 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

177 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

20 formations

Polat — 37.98°N, 31.45°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.77°ECalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°EAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°EStreiteck — 47.50°N, 11.88°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EBari Limestone — 41.12°N, 16.48°ESepingtiang — 3.83°S, 103.25°Ecalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.73°N, 9.42°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WLiburnian — 45.73°N, 14.00°EMural — 30.57°N, 111.48°WCesarea Limestone — 40.06°N, 18.43°ECiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°EHochmoos — 47.58°N, 13.52°EMal Paso — 18.48°N, 100.70°WHalal — 30.80°N, 33.45°EToledo — 16.16°N, 88.79°W

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The named rock units Cuneolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 125 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cuneolina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

503 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Cuneolina, 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

44 references

Each of the 177 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. 32 further references are not listed. 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 Cuneolina

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cuneolina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itCuneolininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.