Reticulofenestra umbilicus
Dr Richard B. Pearce · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Reticulofenestra umbilicus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Reticulofenestra umbilicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reticulofenestra umbilicus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Reticulofenestra umbilicus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Blackites2 sites
- Discoaster2 sites
- Acktinocyclina radians1 site
- Alopias1 site
- Basilosaurus isis1 site
- Brachaelurus1 site
- Carcharhinus frequens1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Centrophorus1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chiasmolithus grandis1 site
- Chiasmolithus oamaruensis1 site
- Chiasmolithus solitus1 site
- Chione1 site
- Chlamys biarritzensis1 site
- Coccolithus1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassostrea1 site
- Cribrocentrum1 site
- Cyclococcolithus formosus1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Daktylethra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Reticulofenestra umbilicus, 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
3 references- A cetacean limb from the Middle Eocene of Ukraine sheds light on mammalian adaptations to life in water1
- New biostratigraphical data on the marine Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene of Jordan1
- Fossil cuttlebones in the Vicentinian Priabonian (Late Eocene, Veneto Region, NE Italy)1
Each of the 3 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
Media content1
Picture of Reticulofenestra umbilicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Richard B. Pearce
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Reticulofenestra umbilicus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itReticulofenestra through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Levin 1965