Reticulofenestra minuta

No picture of Reticulofenestra minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Reticulofenestra minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ReticulofenestraPBDB
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 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 1991 occurrencesPaleocene — about 5 of 1991 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 17 of 1991 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 47 of 1991 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 479 of 1991 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 621 of 1991 occurrencesPleistocene — about 821 of 1991 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 11 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 14 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 36 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 32 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 33 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 32 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 38 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 89 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 123 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 232 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 583 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 713 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

1,991 occurrences of Reticulofenestra minuta on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1,991 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

3 formations

Campo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Reticulofenestra minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,985 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Reticulofenestra minuta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Reticulofenestra minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

356 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,985 sites for Reticulofenestra minuta, 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

65 references

Each of the 1,991 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. 53 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

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No picture of Reticulofenestra minuta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Reticulofenestra minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Reticulofenestra minuta 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 itReticulofenestra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

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