Marssonella

Marssonella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EggerellinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 31 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 31 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 1 occurrence163–159 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–127 Mya — about 5 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–118 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences118–113 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya41.03 Mya168 Mya31 Mya

31 occurrences of Marssonella 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

31 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

8 formations

Ferriby — 51.10°N, 1.30°EFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.23°WKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Praia dos Coxos — 38.85°N, 9.33°WNorthumberland — 48.83°N, 123.30°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°EMargas de Pamplona — 42.89°N, 0.94°WTaraklı — 40.20°N, 31.33°E

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The named rock units Marssonella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marssonella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Marssonella, 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

16 references

Each of the 31 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. 4 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 Marssonella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEggerellinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.