Chiloguembelina

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChiloguembelinidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Globigerinina
Time the record covers
At least 81 million years on record.
The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
106 occurrences of Chiloguembelina on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
106 occurrences- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
- Paleocene40%
- Eocene25%
- Oligocene33%
- Mioceneunder 1%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
- Dakhla Formation24
- Corsicana Formation5
- Ziman Formation1
- Ilaro Formation1
- Ndayane Formation1
- Hesquiat Formation · Carmanah Group1
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The named rock units Chiloguembelina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chiloguembelina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Chiloguembelina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
239 taxa- Subbotina48 sites
- Guembelitria cretacea22 sites
- Paragloborotalia20 sites
- Parasubbotina pseudobulloides20 sites
- Parasubbotina varianta20 sites
- Woodringina claytonensis20 sites
- Turborotalia ampliapertura19 sites
- Globoconusa18 sites
- Globanomalina17 sites
- Woodringina hornerstownensis17 sites
- Guembelina crinita15 sites
- Catapsydrax12 sites
- Globigerina12 sites
- Acarinina11 sites
- Foraminifera11 sites
- Pseudohastigerina11 sites
- Subbotina corpulenta10 sites
- Guembelitria9 sites
- Tenuitella9 sites
- Eoglobigerina extensa8 sites
- Globorotaloides7 sites
- Morozovella7 sites
- Dentoglobigerina venezuelana6 sites
- Globoconusa daubjergensis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Chiloguembelina, 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
26 references- Guembelitria-dominated late Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal assemblages mimic early Danian in central Egypt24
- Site U15149
- Site U14039
- Site U15098
- Site U13368
- Site U15076
- Site U14066
- Site U15165
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas5
- Site U14354
- Site U15203
- Site U13332
Each of the 106 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. 14 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 content1

Picture of Chiloguembelina
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Chiloguembelina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itChiloguembelinidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.