Globigerinoides tenellus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobigerinoidesPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
73 occurrences of Globigerinoides tenellus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
73 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pliocene6%
- Pleistocene88%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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 Globigerinoides tenellus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Globigerinoides tenellus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Globigerinoides tenellus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Globigerinoides ruber65 sites
- Globigerina bulloides63 sites
- Globigerinita glutinata62 sites
- Neogloboquadrina dutertrei61 sites
- Trilobatus sacculifer61 sites
- Globorotalia (Menardella) menardii57 sites
- Pulleniatina obliquiloculata57 sites
- Orbulina universa56 sites
- Globigerinella siphonifera50 sites
- Globigerinoides trilobus45 sites
- Globigerinoides conglobatus44 sites
- Neogloboquadrina incompta41 sites
- Globorotalia (Globorotalia) tumida37 sites
- Sphaeroidinella dehiscens37 sites
- Globorotalia (Hirsutella) scitula31 sites
- Globigerina falconensis28 sites
- Globigerinella calida28 sites
- Globorotalia crassaformis27 sites
- Globoturborotalita rubescens27 sites
- Globoconella inflata24 sites
- Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) tosaensis23 sites
- Foraminifera22 sites
- Globigerinoides obliquus20 sites
- Globorotalia truncatulinoides18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Globigerinoides tenellus, 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
14 references- Site U144713
- Site U145712
- Site U145610
- Site U14379
- Site U14367
- Site U14995
- Site U14465
- Site U14315
- Site U14482
- High coral reef connectivity across the Indian Ocean is revealed 6–7 Ma ago by a turbid-water scleractinian assemblage from Tanzania (Eastern Africa)1
- Site U15041
- Site U14441
Each of the 73 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Globigerinoides tenellus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Globigerinoides tenellus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itGlobigerinoides through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parker 1958)