Dorothia

Dorothia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 341 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 34 of 341 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 114 of 341 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 341 occurrencesEocene — about 59 of 341 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 38 of 341 occurrencesMiocene — about 30 of 341 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 341 occurrencesPleistocene — about 32 of 341 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–132 Mya — about 11 occurrences132–126 Mya — about 12 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 7 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 15 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 17 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 8 occurrences79–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–68 Mya — about 38 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 31 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 14 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 11 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 16 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 15 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 16 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 15 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 25 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–5.3 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 39 occurrences149.2 Mya129 ka158 Mya0 Mya

341 occurrences of Dorothia 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

341 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

14 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ESundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.78°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ELindi — 10.03°S, 39.64°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.30°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WNorthumberland — 48.83°N, 123.30°WConway — 43.06°S, 172.58°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WKcynia — 52.37°N, 19.34°ETorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°E

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The named rock units Dorothia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 251 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dorothia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

578 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 304 sites for Dorothia, and this reads 240 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

55 references

Each of the 341 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. 43 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 Dorothia

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.