Pseudoparrella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 93 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 290 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.
147 occurrences of Pseudoparrella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
147 occurrences- Late Cretaceous37%
- Oligocene14%
- Miocene40%
- Pliocene2%
- Pleistocene8%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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
- Ebelsberg Formation2
- Maastricht Formation2
- Abu Qada/Raha Formation1
- Monterey Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudoparrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 141 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoparrella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Pseudoparrella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
296 taxa- Gyroidinoides86 sites
- Globocassidulina85 sites
- Cibicidoides83 sites
- Oridorsalis81 sites
- Foraminifera78 sites
- Pullenia78 sites
- Siphonodosaria68 sites
- Nuttallides66 sites
- Sphaeroidina bulloides47 sites
- Pleurostomella46 sites
- Pyrulina46 sites
- Laticarinina45 sites
- Anomalinoides43 sites
- Quinqueloculina41 sites
- Astrononion40 sites
- Textulariia37 sites
- Favocassidulina32 sites
- Recurvoides26 sites
- Cassidulina25 sites
- Karreriella24 sites
- Nonion24 sites
- Eggerella23 sites
- Dentalina22 sites
- Pyrgo19 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Pseudoparrella, 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
13 references- Type specimens of Maastrichtian fossils in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden53
- Site U133538
- Site U133426
- Upper slope Site U14138
- Site U13366
- Site U13335
- Site U13374
- Oceanographic conditions as a trigger for the formation of an Early Miocene (Aquitanian) Konservat-Lagerstätte in the Central Paratethys Sea2
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Miocene Saddleback Valley Limestone, Orange County, Southern California1
- Input Site U14141
- Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event OAE2 in shallow shelf sequences of NE Egypt1
- Site U13521
Each of the 147 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. 1 further reference is 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 Pseudoparrella
- 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 Pseudoparrella 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman and Ten Dam 1948