Cribrostomoides
Searched as Cribrostomoides cretacea. The Paleobiology Database treats Cribrostomoides as the accepted name.

Hannes Grobe · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
- HaplophragmoididaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cribrostomoides on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Cribrostomoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cribrostomoides and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cribrostomoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
279 taxa- Lenticulina31 sites
- Gaudryina29 sites
- Haplophragmoides26 sites
- Cibicidoides19 sites
- Gaudryina hayasakai19 sites
- Ammodiscus18 sites
- Glomospira16 sites
- Chilostomella15 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)15 sites
- Ammobaculites14 sites
- Bolivina14 sites
- Brizalina14 sites
- Eubuliminella14 sites
- Eggerella13 sites
- Hanzawaia asterizana13 sites
- Baggina12 sites
- Bulimina12 sites
- Globobulimina12 sites
- Coscinodiscus11 sites
- Geodia11 sites
- Glandulina11 sites
- Planktons indet.11 sites
- Ammodiscus incertus10 sites
- Bathysiphon eocenicus10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Cribrostomoides, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Cribrostomoides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Hannes Grobe
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cribrostomoides 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHaplophragmoididae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.