Pseudotriloculina

No picture of Pseudotriloculina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudotriloculina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MiliolinellinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesMiocene87–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences72.2 Mya12.8 Mya87 Mya10 Mya

10 occurrences of Pseudotriloculina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

10 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

1 formation

Quilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°E

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The named rock units Pseudotriloculina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudotriloculina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pseudotriloculina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pseudotriloculina, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 10 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 Pseudotriloculina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pseudotriloculina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pseudotriloculina 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 itMiliolinellinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cherif 1970