Marginotruncana

Marginotruncana

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 98 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 97 of 98 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 98 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 98 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 10 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 26 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 20 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 13 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 16 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya48.07 Mya102 Mya36 Mya

98 occurrences of Marginotruncana 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

98 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

8 formations

Lindi — 10.02°S, 39.65°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.56°N, 10.88°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.62°N, 10.96°EN'Golome marl — 8.37°S, 13.37°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EWata — 28.81°N, 33.50°EMexcala — 19.43°N, 99.13°WMatanuska — 61.87°N, 147.35°WFunks — 38.52°N, 122.08°W

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The named rock units Marginotruncana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marginotruncana and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Marginotruncana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

247 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Marginotruncana, 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

17 references

Each of the 98 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. 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Marginotruncana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Marginotruncana 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 itGlobotruncanidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.