Lepidorbitoides minor
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepidorbitoidesPBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Lepidorbitoides minor 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Lepidorbitoides minor 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.
Lepidorbitoides minor and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lepidorbitoides minor and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
96 taxa- Orbitoides media4 sites
- Siderolites calcitrapoides3 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Omphalocyclus2 sites
- Simplorbites2 sites
- Acteonella1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Acutostrea1 site
- Agerostrea1 site
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Anomiidae1 site
- Aporrhais1 site
- Applinocrinus1 site
- Asteroids indet.1 site
- Astrogyra1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calappidae1 site
- Campanile1 site
- Cancellothyridinae1 site
- Ceratostreon flabellatum1 site
- Cidaroida1 site
- Codiopsis1 site
- Comatulida1 site
- Crassatella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lepidorbitoides minor, 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
3 references- Le Campanien et le Maastrichtien a rudistes et grands foraminifers de Quatretonda (Provence de Valence, Espagne): une clef pour la biozonation et les correlations stratigraphiques dans le domaine mesogeen3
- Palaeoecological implications of Upper Cretaceous solitary corals, United Arab Emirates/Oman Borders1
- Late Maastrichtian and Early Palaeocene index macrofossils in the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium)1
Each of the 5 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 Lepidorbitoides minor
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lepidorbitoides minor 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 itLepidorbitoides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schlumberger 1901)