Flabellammina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FlabellammininaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Flabellammina 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
3 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
2 formations
- Westgate Formation · Colorado Group2
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group1
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The named rock units Flabellammina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Flabellammina and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Flabellammina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Ammobaculites3 sites
- Haplophragmoides3 sites
- Gaudryina2 sites
- Miliammina2 sites
- Reophax2 sites
- Verneuilina2 sites
- Ammomarginulina1 site
- Arctica murrayensis1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Dunveganoceras1 site
- Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) albertense1 site
- Inoceramus corpulentus1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Spiroplectammina1 site
- Trochammina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Flabellammina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Sedimentology, micropaleontology, geochemistry and hydrocarbon potential of shale from the cretaceous Lower Colorado Group in Western Canada2
- Foraminifera of the Cenomanian Dunveganoceras Zone of the Peace River area of western Canada1
Each 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. 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 Flabellammina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Flabellammina 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 itFlabellammininae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.