Rotaliidae

Rotaliidae

Scott Fay · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
RotaliaceaPBDB
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 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 2538 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2538 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2538 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2538 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2538 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 2538 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 108 of 2538 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 309 of 2538 occurrencesEocene — about 368 of 2538 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 252 of 2538 occurrencesMiocene — about 542 of 2538 occurrencesPliocene — about 223 of 2538 occurrencesPleistocene — about 714 of 2538 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 29 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 11 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 68 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 214 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 208 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 137 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 135 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 184 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 238 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 242 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 1066 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

2,538 occurrences of Rotaliidae 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

2,538 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

106 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 35.38°N, 45.49°ESinjar — 35.54°N, 45.30°EEl Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ESylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ELakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°EZorbehan — 38.83°N, 37.83°EPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPebas — 7.25°S, 74.98°WTarbur — 31.60°N, 51.20°ETarbur — 31.72°N, 51.20°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°ELithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ECholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°EKhurmala — 35.11°N, 45.82°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.48°N, 59.57°ELockhart Limestone — 32.43°N, 70.50°ETortonian Limestone — 34.99°N, 24.75°ECastro Limestone — 39.85°N, 18.38°ECastro Limestone — 40.04°N, 18.42°EAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WPatala — 32.65°N, 71.82°EEbelsberg — 48.21°N, 14.22°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EMolare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EWadi Tamet — 31.00°N, 16.09°EWadi Tamet — 29.81°N, 16.61°EWadi Tamet — 28.88°N, 18.87°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Rotaliidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2,066 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rotaliidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Rotaliidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,716 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,593 sites for Rotaliidae, and this reads 240 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

252 references

Each of the 2,538 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. 240 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 content1

Picture of Rotaliidae

Credit
Scott Fay
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rotaliidae 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 itRotaliacea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1839