Praeorbitolina
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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 most 26 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Praeorbitolina 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
9 occurrences- Early 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Praeorbitolina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Praeorbitolina and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Praeorbitolina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Palorbitolina6 sites
- Orbitolina3 sites
- Requienia3 sites
- Salpingoporella3 sites
- Toucasia3 sites
- Ceratostreon flabellatum2 sites
- Neotrocholina2 sites
- Offneria2 sites
- Sabaudia2 sites
- ? Rectodictyconus giganteus1 site
- Agriopleura1 site
- Angioporella1 site
- Arabicodium1 site
- Archaealveolina1 site
- Atreta1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Bacinella irregularis1 site
- Bakalovaella1 site
- Boueina hochstetteri1 site
- Caprina1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Choffatella decipiens1 site
- Chondrodonta1 site
- Cuneolina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Praeorbitolina, 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- Lower Aptian rudist faunas (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea) from Croatia3
- Stratigraphic evidence for an Early Aptian sea-level fluctuation: the Graua Limestone of south-eastern Ethiopia2
- Palaeontology of the 1985 Geotraverse, Lhasa to Golmud2
- An Early Cretaceous mesophotic coral ecosystem built by platy corals (middle Aptian, Southern Carpathians, Romania)1
- Lower Cretaceous Rudist faunas of Southeast Spain: an overview1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Praeorbitolina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Praeorbitolina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itOrbitolinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.