Cristellaria rotulata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CristellariaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 225 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
13 occurrences of Cristellaria rotulata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Yegua Formation4
- Gatun Formation2
- Ameki Formation1
- Milburn Limestone Formation1
- Cephalopod Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Cristellaria rotulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cristellaria rotulata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cristellaria rotulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
385 taxa- Nodosaria5 sites
- Bairdia4 sites
- Ceratobulimina4 sites
- Cythere4 sites
- Eponides4 sites
- Bolivina3 sites
- Cythereis3 sites
- Cytherella3 sites
- Cytheridea (Cytheridea) mulleri3 sites
- Guttulina problema3 sites
- Polymorphina3 sites
- Quinqueloculina3 sites
- Quinqueloculina seminulum3 sites
- Virgulina3 sites
- Ammodiscus2 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis dariensis2 sites
- Antillophos (Rhipophos) metuloides2 sites
- Bulimina2 sites
- Caryocorbula oropendula stena2 sites
- Cidaris2 sites
- Cornuspira2 sites
- Cucullaea2 sites
- Cytheropteron2 sites
- Eurytellina punicea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cristellaria rotulata, 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
8 references- The Foraminifera and Ostracoda of the marine Yegua of the type sections4
- Die Brachiopoden, Lamellibranchiaten und Gastropoden der Trias von Timor II2
- The biological character and geologic correlation of the sedimentary formations of Panama in their relation to the geologic history of Central America and the West Indies2
- Eocene stratigraphy of southern Nigeria1
- Kalken paa Saltholm1
- Foraminifera from the Eocene of Cowlitz River Lewis County, Washington1
- A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua1
- On the geology of the Clarendon phosphate deposits, Otago, New Zealand1
Each of the 13 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 Cristellaria rotulata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cristellaria rotulata 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 itCristellaria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)