Pseudoguembelina

Jo Ann Sanner, Specimen from Department of Paleobiology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterohelicidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Globigerinina
Time the record covers
At most 45 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
447 occurrences of Pseudoguembelina 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
447 occurrences- Late Cretaceous66%
- Paleocene34%
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
5 formations
- El Haria Formation295
- Dakhla Formation115
- Corsicana Formation31
- Duwi Formation2
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Pseudoguembelina 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.
Pseudoguembelina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudoguembelina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
192 taxa- Guembelitria cretacea148 sites
- Heterohelix navarroensis145 sites
- Heterohelix globulosa138 sites
- Heterohelix128 sites
- Heterohelix dentata128 sites
- Rugoglobigerina rugosa125 sites
- Rugoglobigerina119 sites
- Globotruncana105 sites
- Pseudotextularia elegans101 sites
- Muricohedbergella monmouthensis98 sites
- Rugoglobigerina scotti97 sites
- Ventilabrella carseyae95 sites
- Globigerinelloides91 sites
- Rugoglobigerina macrocephala89 sites
- Globotruncanella88 sites
- Globotruncanella petaloidea85 sites
- Guembelitria85 sites
- Heterohelix planata82 sites
- Globotruncana aegyptiaca78 sites
- Heterohelix striata76 sites
- Planomalina yaucoensis76 sites
- Hedbergella holmdelensis63 sites
- Globotruncanita61 sites
- Globotruncanita stuarti58 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 168 sites for Pseudoguembelina, 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
11 references- Paleoecology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction in planktonic foraminifera141
- Guembelitria-dominated late Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal assemblages mimic early Danian in central Egypt109
- The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary stratotype section at El Kef, Tunisia: how catastrophic was the mass extinction?81
- High stress late Maastrichtian paleoenvironment: inference from planktonic foraminifera in Tunisia73
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas31
- Integrated biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian–Danian succession at Abu Minqar, Egyptian Western Desert: Implications for sequence stratigraphy and tectonic influence6
- Upper Cretaceous macrofossils from the Duwi Formation of the Nile Valley, southern Egypt2
- Site U15141
- Site U15201
- Site U14801
- High stress late Maastrichtian - early Danian palaeoenvironment in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina1
Each of the 447 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Pseudoguembelina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Jo Ann Sanner, Specimen from Department of Paleobiology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudoguembelina 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 itHeterohelicidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.