Gavelinella
Searched as Gavelinella camachoi. The Paleobiology Database treats Gavelinella as the accepted name.
via iDigBio · via iDigBio. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GavellinellinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gavelinella 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous80%
- Paleocene21%
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
2 formations
- Loncoche Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Gavelinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gavelinella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gavelinella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
729 taxa- Lenticulina113 sites
- Gyroidinoides92 sites
- Dentalina72 sites
- Dorothia71 sites
- Gaudryina60 sites
- Cibicidoides45 sites
- Nodosaria43 sites
- Anomalinoides39 sites
- Nuttallides39 sites
- Oridorsalis39 sites
- Bulimina34 sites
- Spiroplectammina33 sites
- Foraminifera29 sites
- Gyroidina29 sites
- Lagena29 sites
- Astacolus28 sites
- Fissurina27 sites
- Saracenaria27 sites
- Tritaxia27 sites
- Eponides26 sites
- Pleurostomella26 sites
- Osangularia25 sites
- Praebulimina25 sites
- Pullenia25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 199 sites for Gavelinella, 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 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Gavelinella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gavelinella 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 itGavellinellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brotzen 1942