Rotalipora

Rotalipora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RotaliporidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 30 of 54 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 54 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–110 Mya — about 6 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 6 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 6 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 7 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 7 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 8 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 8 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100.5 Mya89.8 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

54 occurrences of Rotalipora on record. 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

54 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

7 formations

Lindi — 10.03°S, 39.64°Efahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WRaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°EMexcala — 19.43°N, 99.13°WPraznov — 49.10°N, 18.50°EBalmaseda — 43.00°N, 2.77°W

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The named rock units Rotalipora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 41 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Rotalipora, 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

12 references

Each of the 54 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 Rotalipora

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

No 3D scan of Rotalipora was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brotzen 1942