Turborotalia frontosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurborotaliaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Globigerinina
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Turborotalia frontosa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Turborotalia frontosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turborotalia frontosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Turborotalia frontosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Acarinina pentacamerata2 sites
- Acantholambrus baumi1 site
- Acarinina1 site
- Acarinina bullbrooki1 site
- Acarinina pseudotopilensis1 site
- Acarinina rohri1 site
- Acarinina topilensis1 site
- Acarinina wilcoxensis1 site
- Areoligera coronata1 site
- Areosphaeridium1 site
- Auxides1 site
- Blackites1 site
- Braarudosphaera1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calappilia sitzi1 site
- Campylosphaera1 site
- Catapsydrax1 site
- Cavilucina1 site
- Ceronnectes granulosa1 site
- Chiasmolithus1 site
- Chiasmolithus grandis1 site
- Chiasmolithus solitus1 site
- Chiloguembelina1 site
- Coccolithus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turborotalia frontosa, 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
3 references- Using Biofacies Analysis of a Tertiary Algal Reef (Pinnacle Reef - Middle Eocene IIA), at Burton Guyot (IODP Site U1376) to Determine Transition from Greenhouse to Icehouse1
- New fossil scombrid (Pelagia: Scombridae) fishes preserved as predator and prey from the Eocene of Senegal1
- Age of the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Turborotalia frontosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Turborotalia frontosa 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.
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What may have been alongside itTurborotalia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Subbotina 1953)