Guembelitria

Guembelitria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GuembelitriidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 27.3 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 660 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 660 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 355 of 660 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 302 of 660 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 660 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 660 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–97 Mya — about 57 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 61 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 9 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 109 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 171 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 238 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–53 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya33.9 Mya145 Mya25 Mya

660 occurrences of Guembelitria 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

660 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

16 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°EWhite Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EPlenus Marl — 50.80°N, 0.18°ECorsicana — 31.13°N, 96.82°WLower Chalk — 50.80°N, 0.18°EJagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°WDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°EFuentes — 52.45°S, 70.97°WRaha — 28.81°N, 33.50°EAbu Qada — 28.81°N, 33.50°EBuccleuch — 35.28°S, 139.45°EFerriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EConway — 43.06°S, 172.58°EAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EKemshidag — 41.12°N, 48.63°E

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The named rock units Guembelitria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Guembelitria and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Guembelitria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 304 sites for Guembelitria, and this reads 240 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

21 references

Each of the 660 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Guembelitria

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 Guembelitria 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 itGuembelitriidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.