Marssonella oxycona

Marssonella oxycona

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences164–160 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161.5 Mya72.2 Mya167 Mya64 Mya

10 occurrences of Marssonella oxycona 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

10 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

3 formations

Kahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.25°EKahuitara Tuff — 44.33°S, 176.00°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°ETaraklı — 40.20°N, 31.33°E

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The named rock units Marssonella oxycona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marssonella oxycona and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Marssonella oxycona, 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 10 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 Marssonella oxycona

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Marssonella oxycona 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 itMarssonella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reuss 1860)