Dentalina catenula
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DentalinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
6 occurrences of Dentalina catenula 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous83%
- Eocene17%
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
3 formations
- El Haria Formation4
- Chenaibo Formation · Middle Yezo Group1
- Keasey Formation1
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The named rock units Dentalina catenula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dentalina catenula and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Dentalina catenula and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Gyroidina5 sites
- Pullenia5 sites
- Angulogenerina4 sites
- Anomalinoides4 sites
- Anomalinoides acuta4 sites
- Anomalinoides welleri4 sites
- Bolivinoides4 sites
- Cibicidoides4 sites
- Coryphostoma4 sites
- Gyroidina planulata4 sites
- Gyroidinoides4 sites
- Gyroidinoides subangulata4 sites
- Lenticulina4 sites
- Nuttallides4 sites
- Osangularia4 sites
- Praebulimina4 sites
- Saracenaria4 sites
- Valvuliana4 sites
- Alabamina3 sites
- Berthelinella3 sites
- Eouvigerina3 sites
- Fursenkoina3 sites
- Guttulina3 sites
- Lagena hispida3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Dentalina catenula, 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
3 references- The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera4
- An Upper Cretaceous plesiosaur (Family Elasmosauridae) from the Wakkanai area Hokkaido1
- The microfauna of the type section of the Keasey Formation of Northwestern Oregon1
Each of the 6 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 content0
No picture of Dentalina catenula was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dentalina catenula, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dentalina catenula 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 itDentalina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1860