Heterolepa

Heterolepa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterolepidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 114 occurrencesEocene — about 16 of 114 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 114 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 114 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 114 occurrencesPleistocene — about 61 of 114 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 57 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

114 occurrences of Heterolepa 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

114 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

7 formations

Chungliao — 24.03°N, 120.65°ECholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EGambier — 37.89°S, 140.76°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EWuchihshan — 24.03°N, 120.65°E

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The named rock units Heterolepa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterolepa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Heterolepa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

636 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Heterolepa, 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

23 references

Each of the 114 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Heterolepa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Heterolepa 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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What may have been alongside itHeterolepidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Franzenau 1884