Trilobatus

Trilobatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 83 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 2746 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 2746 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 2746 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 2746 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 788 of 2746 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 777 of 2746 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1148 of 2746 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 28 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 48 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 94 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 72 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 174 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 306 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 746 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 1257 occurrences83.6 Mya11.7 ka87 Mya0 Mya

2,746 occurrences of Trilobatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

2,746 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

Esmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.91°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°ETuxpan — 20.47°N, 97.20°WCholan — 24.58°N, 121.00°ECalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WSanta Cruz — 16.26°N, 119.92°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EFormación Coquimbo — 30.30°S, 71.60°W

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The named rock units Trilobatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2,731 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trilobatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Trilobatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

755 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,674 sites for Trilobatus, and this reads 240 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

110 references

Each of the 2,746 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. 98 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Trilobatus

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 itGlobigerinidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spezzaferri et al. 2015