Choffatella

Choffatella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoffatellinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 88 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 87 of 88 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–130 Mya — about 3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 3 occurrences128–127 Mya — about 3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 6 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 15 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 15 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 13 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences149.2 Mya121.4 Mya155.6 Mya112.4 Mya

88 occurrences of Choffatella 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

88 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

26 formations

calcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.77°N, 9.33°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.73°N, 9.42°Wcalcaires récifaux inférieurs — 38.75°N, 9.35°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.40°N, 9.22°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.81°N, 9.47°WMarnes à Huîtres — 38.77°N, 9.30°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.43°N, 9.35°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WMarno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus — 38.77°N, 9.30°WGrès inférieurs — 38.81°N, 9.47°WGrès inférieurs — 38.72°N, 9.45°WGrès inférieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WCalcaires récifaux — 38.81°N, 9.47°WCalcaires récifaux — 38.73°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.42°WBrachyanticlinal of Caneças — 38.82°N, 9.22°WCalcaires et silts de Ladeiras — 38.40°N, 9.22°WPapo Seco — 38.40°N, 9.22°WAssises à Orbitolines — 38.81°N, 9.47°WAssises à Orbitolines — 39.95°N, 9.42°WTalmest — 31.21°N, 7.88°WTazought — 31.15°N, 8.97°WCapas Rojas — 40.63°N, 0.10°WAmba Aradam — 9.13°N, 41.83°ECalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Polypiers de Lagosteiros — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès de Rochadouro — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès inférieur et assises à Orbitolines — 38.73°N, 9.47°WCoatepec Sandstone — 18.15°N, 97.40°W

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The named rock units Choffatella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choffatella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

319 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Choffatella, 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

11 references

Each of the 88 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. 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 Choffatella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Choffatella 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 itChoffatellinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schlumberger 1905