Foricula nodulifera
No picture of Foricula nodulifera 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 Foricula nodulifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForiculaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bryozoa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Foricula nodulifera 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Foricula nodulifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Foricula nodulifera and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Foricula nodulifera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Filicea cincta3 sites
- Meliceritites porosa3 sites
- Petalopora concinna3 sites
- Pustulopora verrucosa3 sites
- Sulcocava sulcata3 sites
- Ceriocava incrustata2 sites
- Crisina geometrica2 sites
- Defranciopora cochloidea2 sites
- Desmepora subhercynica2 sites
- Foricula acuminata2 sites
- Heteropora verrucosa2 sites
- Mecynoecia proboscidea2 sites
- Meliceritites pseudoangulosa2 sites
- Petalopora pulchella2 sites
- Plagioecia compressa2 sites
- Tholopora clavula2 sites
- Actinopora brongniarti1 site
- Ceriopora micropora1 site
- Ceriopora semiglobosa1 site
- Crisisina1 site
- Diaperoecia tubuliformis1 site
- Fasciculiporina pockrandti1 site
- Homoeosolen gamblei1 site
- Mecynoecia labiata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Foricula nodulifera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Foricula nodulifera 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 Foricula nodulifera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Foricula nodulifera 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 itForicula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Voigt 1924)