Siderolites

Siderolites

Charles Bevalet · Public Domain · 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
CalcarinidaePBDB
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 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 19 of 28 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 28 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesEocene86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya56 Mya86.5 Mya47.3 Mya

28 occurrences of Siderolites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

28 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

11 formations

Torrella — 38.95°N, 0.38°WCiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°ECiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°EMarnes de plage — 43.14°N, 0.95°EZongpu — 32.00°N, 90.00°EMarno-calcaires jaunes de Gensac — 43.18°N, 0.72°EMarnes d'Auzas — 43.20°N, 0.95°ETaraklı — 40.20°N, 31.33°EKravarikovci — 48.73°N, 17.64°ELubina — 48.78°N, 17.70°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EBiely Potok — 49.31°N, 19.61°E

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The named rock units Siderolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Siderolites and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Siderolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Siderolites, 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

19 references

Each of the 28 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. 7 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 Siderolites

Credit
Charles Bevalet
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCalcarinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.