Globotruncanella petaloidea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlobotruncanellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Globigerinina
Time the record covers
At least 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.
92 occurrences of Globotruncanella petaloidea 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
92 occurrences- Late Cretaceous75%
- Paleocene25%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Globotruncanella petaloidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Globotruncanella petaloidea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Globotruncanella petaloidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Rugoglobigerina rugosa85 sites
- Heterohelix globulosa83 sites
- Heterohelix82 sites
- Pseudoguembelina costulata81 sites
- Rugoglobigerina80 sites
- Globotruncana79 sites
- Heterohelix navarroensis77 sites
- Pseudotextularia elegans77 sites
- Guembelitria cretacea74 sites
- Heterohelix dentata73 sites
- Rugoglobigerina scotti73 sites
- Ventilabrella carseyae72 sites
- Rugoglobigerina macrocephala69 sites
- Muricohedbergella monmouthensis68 sites
- Pseudoguembelina kempensis64 sites
- Globotruncana aegyptiaca60 sites
- Pseudoguembelina palpebra59 sites
- Heterohelix planata55 sites
- Globotruncanita stuarti53 sites
- Globigerinelloides52 sites
- Globotruncanita50 sites
- Globotruncana rosetta48 sites
- Pseudoguembelina hariaensis48 sites
- Heterohelix striata46 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Globotruncanella petaloidea, 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
6 references- Guembelitria-dominated late Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal assemblages mimic early Danian in central Egypt32
- Paleoecology of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction in planktonic foraminifera21
- The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary stratotype section at El Kef, Tunisia: how catastrophic was the mass extinction?16
- High stress late Maastrichtian paleoenvironment: inference from planktonic foraminifera in Tunisia12
- Site U14037
- Sedimentology and extinction patterns across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary interval in East Texas4
Each of the 92 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 Globotruncanella petaloidea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Globotruncanella petaloidea 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 itGlobotruncanella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gandolfi 1955)