Guembelina glabrans
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuembelinaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Globigerinina
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
19 occurrences of Guembelina glabrans 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
19 occurrences- Late Cretaceous79%
- 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
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The named rock units Guembelina glabrans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Guembelina glabrans and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Guembelina glabrans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Guembelitria cretacea19 sites
- Globigerinelloides17 sites
- Guembelitria17 sites
- Hedbergella holmdelensis17 sites
- Heterohelix17 sites
- Heterohelix globulosa17 sites
- Heterohelix navarroensis17 sites
- Pseudoguembelina kempensis17 sites
- Globotruncanella16 sites
- Heterohelix dentata16 sites
- Muricohedbergella monmouthensis16 sites
- Planomalina yaucoensis16 sites
- Pseudoguembelina costulata16 sites
- Globotruncana arca15 sites
- Heterohelix striata15 sites
- Rugoglobigerina15 sites
- Guembelina striata deformis14 sites
- Pseudoguembelina palpebra14 sites
- Rugoglobigerina macrocephala14 sites
- Rugoglobigerina rugosa14 sites
- Ventilabrella carseyae14 sites
- Globotruncana13 sites
- Globotruncana aegyptiaca13 sites
- Globotruncana rosetta13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Guembelina glabrans, 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
2 references- The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary stratotype section at El Kef, Tunisia: how catastrophic was the mass extinction?17
- Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt2
Each of the 19 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Guembelina glabrans
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Guembelina glabrans 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 itGuembelina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cushman 1938)