Neorotalia

Neorotalia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PararotaliinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesOligocene — about 118 of 160 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 160 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 160 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 160 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 4 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 10 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 10 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 10 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 10 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 10 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 14 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 16 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 16 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 16 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 13 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 13 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

160 occurrences of Neorotalia on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

160 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

Qom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°EQom Formation — 34.51°N, 50.95°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.92°N, 14.42°EQom — 37.34°N, 44.94°EPesco Falcone — 42.17°N, 14.10°ECastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.38°ETokca — 38.05°N, 29.73°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.48°N, 11.58°ENeil West Coast — 11.83°N, 93.01°E

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The named rock units Neorotalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neorotalia and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Neorotalia and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

161 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 157 sites for Neorotalia, 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

14 references

Each of the 160 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. 2 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 Neorotalia

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 Neorotalia 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 itPararotaliinae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bermúdez 1952