Rosalina

Rosalina

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On record

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

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 196 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 196 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 196 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 196 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 196 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 196 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 21 of 196 occurrencesPleistocene — about 139 of 196 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 16 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 156 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

196 occurrences of Rosalina on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

196 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

14 formations

Acredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.83°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WBear Bluff — 33.90°N, 78.84°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WRosignano Limestone — 43.43°N, 10.45°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°ECayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WBrasso — 10.59°N, 61.13°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EGar El Muluk — 30.37°N, 30.32°EJagüel — 36.83°S, 69.26°W

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The named rock units Rosalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 177 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rosalina and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rosalina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,799 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 147 sites for Rosalina, 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

44 references

Each of the 196 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. 32 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 Rosalina

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itDiscorbinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826