Globotruncana aegyptiaca

Globotruncana aegyptiaca

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlobotruncanaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 132 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 89 of 132 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 42 of 132 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 132 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 132 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 132 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 132 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 132 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–69 Mya — about 44 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 42 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 31 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72.2 Mya5.333 Mya102 Mya2 Mya

132 occurrences of Globotruncana aegyptiaca on record, most of them in the Late 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

132 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

4 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°ECorsicana — 31.08°N, 96.83°WDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°E

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The named rock units Globotruncana aegyptiaca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Globotruncana aegyptiaca and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Globotruncana aegyptiaca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Globotruncana aegyptiaca, 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

7 references

Each of the 132 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 Globotruncana aegyptiaca

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Globotruncana aegyptiaca 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 itGlobotruncana through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nakkady 1950