Morozovella formosa

No picture of Morozovella formosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Morozovella formosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MorozovellaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

2 occurrences of Morozovella formosa 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

2 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

2 formations

Lindi — 10.02°S, 39.65°EThies — 14.68°N, 17.20°W

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The named rock units Morozovella formosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Morozovella formosa and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Morozovella formosa and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Morozovella formosa, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Morozovella formosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Morozovella formosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Morozovella formosa 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 itMorozovella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bolli 1957)