Orbitolinopsis

Orbitolinopsis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 139.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 11 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous140–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.05 Mya121.4 Mya139.6 Mya112.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Orbitolinopsis on record, most of them in the Early 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

11 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

6 formations

Cheile Dâmbovicioarei — 45.46°N, 25.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.23°Ecalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WDâmbovicioara — 45.46°N, 25.22°E

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The named rock units Orbitolinopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orbitolinopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Orbitolinopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

270 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Orbitolinopsis, 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

Each of the 11 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 Orbitolinopsis

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

No 3D scan of Orbitolinopsis 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 itOrbitolinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.