Abathomphalus

Abathomphalus is a genus of extinct foraminifera present in the Maastrichtian geological range. It is the only genus of the family Abathomphalidae.

Abathomphalus

Hans M. Bolli, Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., & Helen Tappan · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
ForaminiferaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 9 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Abathomphalus 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

9 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

1 formation

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Abathomphalus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Abathomphalus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Abathomphalus, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 Abathomphalus

Credit
Hans M. Bolli, Alfred R. Loeblich, Jr., & Helen Tappan
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Abathomphalus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.