Gravellina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
2 occurrences of Gravellina 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
2 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
- Sundays River Formation1
- Northumberland Formation · Nanaimo Group1
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The named rock units Gravellina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gravellina and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Gravellina and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammoglobigerina1 site
- Anomalinoides1 site
- Cornuspira orbicula1 site
- Dentalina1 site
- Dorothia1 site
- Eoguttulina1 site
- Fissurina orbignyana1 site
- Globorotalites1 site
- Globotruncana arca1 site
- Globotruncana linneiana1 site
- Globulina1 site
- Gyroidinoides1 site
- Haplophragmoides1 site
- Lagenammina1 site
- Lenticulina1 site
- Lingulina1 site
- Marssonella1 site
- Planoglobulina1 site
- Silicosigmoilina1 site
- Spiroplectammina1 site
- Trochammina1 site
- Trochammina inflata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gravellina, 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- The Foraminifera of the Late Valangian to Hautverian (Early Cretaceous) Sundays River Formation of the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa1
- Upper Cretaceous (Campanian and Maestrichtian) Foraminifera from the Upper Lambert and Cumberland Formations, Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada1
Each of the 2 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 Gravellina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gravellina 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 itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.