Heterostegina reticulata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterosteginaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Heterostegina reticulata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- Marne di Priabona Formation9
- Tossa / Igualada Formation2
- Ardanatz Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Heterostegina reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterostegina reticulata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heterostegina reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Mesophyllum10 sites
- Nummulites chavannesi10 sites
- Assilina alpina9 sites
- Discocyclina dispansa9 sites
- Lithothamnion9 sites
- Nemkovella strophiolata9 sites
- Nummulites incrassatus9 sites
- Discocyclina augustae6 sites
- Pellatispira madaraszi6 sites
- Asterocyclina stellata5 sites
- Discocyclina trabayensis5 sites
- Lithoporella melobesioides5 sites
- Nummulites variolarius5 sites
- Asterocyclina alticostata4 sites
- Discocyclina pratti4 sites
- Discocyclina radians4 sites
- Nummulites stellatus4 sites
- Spiroclypeus granulosus4 sites
- Asterocyclina3 sites
- Discocyclina3 sites
- Nummulites3 sites
- Orbitoclypeus3 sites
- Alveolina elliptica2 sites
- Asterigerina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Heterostegina reticulata, 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
5 references- Larger foraminiferal and coralline algal facies in an Upper Eocene storm-influenced, shallow-water carbonate platform (Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy)9
- An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain)3
- The Upper Eocene crustose coralline algal pavement in the Colli Berici, north-eastern Italy2
- Depositional History of a Paleogene Carbonate Ramp (Western Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece)2
- Fossil associations from the middle and upper Eocene strata of the Pamplona Basin and surrounding areas (Navarre, western Pyrenees)1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Heterostegina reticulata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterostegina reticulata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterostegina reticulata 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 itHeterostegina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rutimeyer 1850