Charentia

Charentia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 36 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 27 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 22 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous150–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–137 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya106.3 Mya150 Mya93 Mya

27 occurrences of Charentia on record, most of them in the Early 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

27 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

8 formations

Varciorog — 46.95°N, 22.28°EVarciorog — 46.92°N, 22.30°EBedoulian — 44.40°N, 27.87°EAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°EMural — 30.57°N, 111.48°WLapos — 46.95°N, 25.90°EValea Magurii — 46.95°N, 22.28°EDvuyakornaya — 44.98°N, 35.37°ETaft — 31.62°N, 53.81°E

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The named rock units Charentia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Charentia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Charentia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Charentia, 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

13 references

Each of the 27 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. 1 further reference is 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 Charentia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Charentia 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 itCharentiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.