Nautiloculina

Nautiloculina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NautiloculinidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 156 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 146 of 268 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 95 of 268 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 268 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 268 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 268 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 268 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 268 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 268 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 268 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 12 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 105 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 63 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 35 occurrences151–146 Mya — about 20 occurrences146–140 Mya — about 7 occurrences140–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 5 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 6 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 7 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences89–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–9.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.6–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences168.2 Mya11.63 Mya174 Mya4 Mya

268 occurrences of Nautiloculina on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

268 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

31 formations

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.89°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 26.25°N, 44.82°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.62°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.80°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 22.17°N, 45.83°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.17°EDhruma — 23.08°N, 46.33°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 25.17°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 26.20°N, 44.83°EDhruma — 25.92°N, 44.97°EDhruma — 25.58°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 25.78°N, 45.25°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.17°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 22.05°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.37°N, 45.50°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 23.90°N, 46.28°EHanifa — 23.50°N, 46.85°EHanifa — 23.08°N, 46.53°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 46.63°EHanifa — 22.75°N, 46.63°EHanifa — 22.60°N, 46.37°EHanifa — 22.08°N, 45.90°EHanifa — 21.83°N, 46.13°EHanifa — 21.08°N, 45.68°EHanifa — 24.08°N, 46.68°EHanifa — 24.27°N, 46.78°EHanifa — 24.52°N, 45.95°EHanifa — 24.83°N, 46.00°EHanifa — 25.63°N, 45.67°EHanifa — 26.03°N, 45.17°EHanifa — 26.33°N, 45.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.52°N, 46.41°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.30°N, 46.53°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 23.90°N, 46.53°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 23.55°N, 46.00°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 23.08°N, 46.33°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 22.83°N, 46.33°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 21.62°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 20.25°N, 45.17°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 18.17°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 24.75°N, 46.08°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.05°N, 45.67°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.37°N, 45.50°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 25.78°N, 45.25°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 26.33°N, 45.00°EJubaila Lst. — 24.84°N, 46.25°EJubaila Lst. — 22.63°N, 46.47°EJubaila Lst. — 22.37°N, 46.53°EJubaila Lst. — 25.33°N, 46.15°EJubaila Lst. — 25.47°N, 45.47°EJubaila Lst. — 22.73°N, 46.63°EJubaila Lst. — 26.42°N, 45.00°EArab — 25.00°N, 46.44°EArab — 25.02°N, 46.50°EArab — 22.25°N, 46.50°EArab — 21.75°N, 46.27°EArab — 25.33°N, 46.00°EArab — 25.67°N, 46.00°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 24.52°N, 46.41°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°ELärchberg — 47.62°N, 12.67°ECalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.43°N, 9.35°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WBikfaya — 33.92°N, 35.71°ELes Calcaires et Dolomies à Silex — 35.68°N, 0.92°WSchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°ECalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.73°N, 9.42°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires à Polypiers de Lagosteiros — 38.40°N, 9.22°WCalcaires et silts de Ladeiras — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.81°N, 9.47°WGrès inférieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WMural — 30.57°N, 111.48°W

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The named rock units Nautiloculina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nautiloculina and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nautiloculina and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

648 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 238 sites for Nautiloculina, 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

24 references

Each of the 268 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. 12 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 Nautiloculina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNautiloculinidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mohler 1938