Pseudotextularia elegans

Pseudotextularia elegans

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PseudotextulariaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At most 39 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 102 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 77 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 102 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 16 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 16 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 16 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 16 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 9 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 8 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 8 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

102 occurrences of Pseudotextularia elegans 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

102 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

4 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°ECorsicana — 31.08°N, 96.83°WOcozocoautla — 16.93°N, 93.08°W

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The named rock units Pseudotextularia elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pseudotextularia elegans and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pseudotextularia elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Pseudotextularia elegans, 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

6 references

Each of the 102 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 Pseudotextularia elegans

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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 itPseudotextularia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rzehak 1891)