Guembelitria cretacea

Guembelitria cretacea

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On record

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

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 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 224 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 107 of 224 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 117 of 224 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 224 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 24 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 24 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 24 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 25 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 40 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 40 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 30 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

224 occurrences of Guembelitria cretacea on record. 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

224 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

6 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°ECorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WJagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°WDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°EConway — 43.06°S, 172.58°E

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The named rock units Guembelitria cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 224 sites for Guembelitria cretacea, 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

12 references

Each of the 224 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 Guembelitria cretacea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Guembelitria cretacea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1933