Reticulofenestra

Reticulofenestra is a genus of calcareous nannoplankton belonging to the haptophyte group. It first emerged during the early Eocene and underwent rapid expansion following the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum—a period characterized by elevated CO2, global warmth and ocean stratification.

Reticulofenestra

via iDigBio · CC BY · via iDigBio. 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
HaptophytaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 12000 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 25 of 12000 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 764 of 12000 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 759 of 12000 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4976 of 12000 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2478 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2978 of 12000 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 14 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 20 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 47 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 50 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 98 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 106 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 180 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 225 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 333 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 198 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 220 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 364 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 479 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 629 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 1265 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 1474 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2521 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 3755 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Reticulofenestra on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 18 formations

Campo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WButano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WShihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EMarne di Priabona — 45.50°N, 11.75°EBrockenhurst Beds — 50.82°N, 1.57°WSanta Cruz — 16.26°N, 119.92°EOld Church — 37.60°N, 77.09°WMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EBolago Marl — 46.05°N, 11.93°EPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Reticulofenestra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 11,943 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

780 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 810 sites for Reticulofenestra, and this reads 240 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

at least 143 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 131 further references are 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 Reticulofenestra

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay et al. 1966