Glabratella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlabratellidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Glabratella on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
16 occurrences- Oligocene13%
- Miocene25%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene31%
- Holocene25%
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
- Rosignano Limestone Formation1
- Quilon Limestone Formation1
- Hesquiat Formation · Carmanah Group1
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The named rock units Glabratella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Glabratella and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Glabratella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
281 taxa- Cibicides10 sites
- Elphidium9 sites
- Ammonia8 sites
- Bolivina8 sites
- Miliolidae6 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus5 sites
- Lagena5 sites
- Rosalina5 sites
- Rosalina globularis5 sites
- Acervulina4 sites
- Annulocibicides4 sites
- Brizalina4 sites
- Bulimina4 sites
- Cassidulina4 sites
- Miliolacea4 sites
- Planorbulina mediterranensis4 sites
- Protelphidium4 sites
- Reussella4 sites
- Soritidae4 sites
- Spirillina4 sites
- Amphistegina3 sites
- Cibicidoides3 sites
- Discorbinella3 sites
- Globocassidulina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Glabratella, 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
8 references- Site U14625
- L'environnement côtier des Alpes-Maritimes à la fin de la transgression versilienne d'après l'étude biostratigraphique du site de l'Etoile à Nice (France)4
- Paleoecology and lithogenesis of the Middle Miocene (Badenian) algal-vermetid reefs from the Roztocze Hills, south-eastern Poland2
- Site U13901
- The Quilon Limestone, Kerala Basin, India: an archive for Miocene Indo-Pacific seagrass beds1
- Rosignano reef complex (Messinian), Livornesi Mountains, Tuscany, central Italy1
- Biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the Escalante and Hesquiat Formations (Early Tertiary) of the Nootka Sound area, Vancouver Island, British Columbia1
- Tertiary brachiopods from Puerto Rico and their paleontologic and paleoecologic significance1
Each of the 16 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 content1
Picture of Glabratella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Glabratella 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 itGlabratellidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.