Lenticulina (Robulus)
Searched as Robulus. The Paleobiology Database treats Lenticulina (Robulus) as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LenticulinaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Lenticulina
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 65 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.
181 occurrences of Lenticulina (Robulus) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
181 occurrences- Late Cretaceous3%
- Paleocene5%
- Eocene14%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene69%
- Pliocene3%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
27 formations
- San Lorenzo Formation12
- Butano Formation8
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group5
- Chatti Mudstone Formation3
- Shoal River Formation · Alum Bluff Group3
- Porters Creek Formation3
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The named rock units Lenticulina (Robulus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 117 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lenticulina (Robulus) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lenticulina (Robulus) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
461 taxa- Spiroplectammina carinata44 sites
- Elphidium42 sites
- Cibicides lobatulus41 sites
- Lentigodentalium40 sites
- Textularia gramen40 sites
- Turritella40 sites
- Cibicides dutemplei38 sites
- Dentalina konincki38 sites
- Globulina gibba38 sites
- Guttulina problema38 sites
- Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita38 sites
- Varicorbula gibba38 sites
- Lenticulina (Lenticulina)36 sites
- Naticidae36 sites
- Nonion36 sites
- Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella36 sites
- Astarte (Astarte) radiata35 sites
- Dentalina35 sites
- Reussirella35 sites
- Martinottiella communis34 sites
- Streptodictyon34 sites
- Aporrhais (Aporrhais)33 sites
- Nassarius33 sites
- Yoldiella33 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Lenticulina (Robulus), and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
22 references- Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 1 Foraminiferen, Anthozoen.114
- Foraminifera from the type section of the San Lorenzo Formation, Santa Cruz County, California20
- Benthic foraminifera and biostratigraphy of the Middle–Upper Eocene transition at Wadi Hitan area, Fayum, Egypt6
- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri6
- Micropaleontología del Paleoceno de General Roca (provincia de Río Negro)5
- The age of the Hannatoma mollusk fauna of South America; a symposium5
- Micropaleontology and stratigraphy of a deep well at Niceville, Okaloosa County, Florida4
- Hunting Survey Corporation, LTD, 19613
- Observations on the Neogene of Northwestern Ecuador2
- Geology and coal resources of the Cumberland. Hobart, and Maple Valley Quadrangles, King County, Washington2
- Revision of Elasmosaurid Plesiosaurs2
- A microfauna from the Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene, Simi Valley, Ventura County, California2
Each of the 181 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. 10 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 content2
Picture of Lenticulina (Robulus)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Robulus terryi · AMNH:FI:64133
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLenticulina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1808