Rotalia

Rotalia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RotaliinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 208 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 22 of 208 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 109 of 208 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 208 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 208 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 208 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 208 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 208 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 7 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 59 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 47 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 10 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 7 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 20 occurrences100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

208 occurrences of Rotalia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

208 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

36 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°EBredasdorp — 34.53°S, 20.03°ERoaia — 47.59°N, 24.02°ERoaia — 47.53°N, 23.96°EAmeki — 6.83°N, 7.08°EAmeki — 5.55°N, 7.63°EHochmoos — 47.60°N, 13.48°EAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EChatti Mudstone — 25.29°N, 62.13°ETalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ETaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°ETaleh Zang — 33.17°N, 47.68°EFleming — 31.00°N, 93.67°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.90°N, 82.59°WRosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°ESouth Bight II — 51.54°N, 178.98°ETisje — 11.03°N, 49.05°EBathurst — 33.48°S, 26.93°ECesarea Limestone — 40.06°N, 18.43°E

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The named rock units Rotalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 99 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rotalia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Rotalia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,378 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 148 sites for Rotalia, 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

61 references

Each of the 208 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. 49 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 Rotalia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Rotalia beccariiformis · AMNH:FI:19893

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. Lamarck 1804