Whiteinella brittonensis

Whiteinella brittonensis

Loeblich & H. Tappan Loeblich · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
WhiteinellaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 8.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 78 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 78 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 7 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 7 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 7 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 7 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 7 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 4 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya85.7 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

78 occurrences of Whiteinella brittonensis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

78 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

6 formations

White Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EPlenus Marl — 50.80°N, 0.18°ELower Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°ELindi — 10.02°S, 39.65°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°ERaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°E

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The named rock units Whiteinella brittonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Whiteinella brittonensis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Whiteinella brittonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Whiteinella brittonensis, 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

7 references

Each of the 78 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 Whiteinella brittonensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Loeblich & H. Tappan Loeblich
Licence
CC0
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Loeblich and Tappan 1961