Heterohelix globulosa

Heterohelix globulosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterohelixPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 90.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 134 of 198 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 63 of 198 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 198 occurrencesEocene95–93 Mya — about 4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 12 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 9 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 18 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 30 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 30 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 30 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 27 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 27 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90.7 Mya48.07 Mya95 Mya40 Mya

198 occurrences of Heterohelix globulosa 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

198 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

12 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°ESecond White Specks — 49.50°N, 112.17°WSecond White Specks — 51.58°N, 111.00°WSecond White Specks — 53.00°N, 110.17°WJagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.56°N, 10.88°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.62°N, 10.96°ELa Frontera — 2.89°N, 75.68°WLa Frontera — 4.54°N, 74.45°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EConway — 43.06°S, 172.58°ELewes Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 2.16°WMexcala — 18.17°N, 98.94°WLoncoche — 37.56°S, 69.83°W

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The named rock units Heterohelix globulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterohelix globulosa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Heterohelix globulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 198 sites for Heterohelix globulosa, 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

19 references

Each of the 198 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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

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Picture of Heterohelix globulosa

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No 3D scan of Heterohelix globulosa 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 itHeterohelix through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ehrenberg 1840)