Dentalina

Dentalina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 266 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 24 of 1330 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 9 of 1330 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 36 of 1330 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 35 of 1330 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 1330 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 22 of 1330 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 47 of 1330 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 58 of 1330 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 183 of 1330 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 30 of 1330 occurrencesEocene — about 152 of 1330 occurrencesOligocene — about 92 of 1330 occurrencesMiocene — about 350 of 1330 occurrencesPliocene — about 69 of 1330 occurrencesPleistocene — about 205 of 1330 occurrences280–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–261 Mya — about 3 occurrences261–252 Mya — about 21 occurrences252–243 Mya — about 26 occurrences243–233 Mya — about 29 occurrences233–224 Mya — about 19 occurrences224–215 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences215–205 Mya — about 2 occurrences205–196 Mya — about 4 occurrences196–187 Mya — about 6 occurrences187–177 Mya — about 8 occurrences177–168 Mya — about 16 occurrences168–159 Mya — about 9 occurrences159–149 Mya — about 40 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 5 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 30 occurrences131–121 Mya — about 11 occurrences121–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–103 Mya — about 10 occurrences103–93 Mya — about 19 occurrences93–84 Mya — about 21 occurrences84–75 Mya — about 8 occurrences75–65 Mya — about 140 occurrences65–56 Mya — about 28 occurrences56–47 Mya — about 45 occurrences47–37 Mya — about 65 occurrences37–28 Mya — about 74 occurrences28–19 Mya — about 142 occurrences19–9.3 Mya — about 208 occurrences9.3–0 Mya — about 337 occurrences266.9 Mya11.7 ka280 Mya0 Mya

1,330 occurrences of Dentalina on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,330 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

64 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°ESundays River — 33.84°S, 25.61°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.78°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ESundays River — 33.60°S, 25.65°ESan Cassiano — 46.53°N, 11.42°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.75°N, 22.50°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.72°N, 23.07°ENaujoji Akmené — 56.00°N, 23.67°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.30°N, 21.00°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.55°N, 22.80°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EKeasey — 45.87°N, 123.32°WEbitiem — 71.82°N, 127.64°EAnshun — 26.34°N, 106.72°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.81°N, 127.24°EUlakhan-Krest — 71.74°N, 127.82°EButano — 37.18°N, 122.14°WSteinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°ERosefield — 31.89°N, 92.00°WPorters Creek — 31.90°N, 86.88°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WChenaibo — 45.42°N, 142.02°EYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°EDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WVaqueros — 34.33°N, 118.83°WVaqueros — 37.15°N, 122.14°WLindi — 10.03°S, 39.64°ELindi — 10.07°S, 39.62°EDaye — 26.51°N, 106.87°EDaye — 30.17°N, 109.00°EHanwang — 31.45°N, 104.15°EHanwang — 31.63°N, 104.40°E

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The named rock units Dentalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 976 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dentalina and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dentalina and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,392 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 998 sites for Dentalina, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

156 references

Each of the 1,330 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. 144 further references are 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 content3

Picture of Dentalina

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dentalina sp. · l-cb

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itNodosariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1826