Nonionella cretacea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NonionellaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
18 occurrences of Nonionella cretacea 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
18 occurrences- Late Cretaceous82%
- Paleocene18%
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
4 formations
- El Haria Formation12
- Roca Formation · Malargüe Group4
- Loncoche Formation · Malargüe Group1
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Nonionella cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nonionella cretacea and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nonionella cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
163 taxa- Anomalinoides acuta13 sites
- Cibicidoides13 sites
- Lenticulina13 sites
- Anomalinoides12 sites
- Anomalinoides welleri12 sites
- Coryphostoma12 sites
- Gyroidinoides12 sites
- Gyroidinoides subangulata12 sites
- Lenticulina munsteri12 sites
- Praebulimina12 sites
- Pullenia12 sites
- Saracenaria12 sites
- Valvuliana12 sites
- Gaudryina11 sites
- Gyroidina11 sites
- Gyroidina planulata11 sites
- Nodosaria11 sites
- Osangularia11 sites
- Palmula11 sites
- Tritaxia11 sites
- Pseudonodosaria10 sites
- Bolivinoides9 sites
- Cibicidoides alleni9 sites
- Dentalina9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Nonionella cretacea, 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
4 references- The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera12
- Microfauna del Cretácico superior y del Terciárico.2
- Contribución al conocimiento de los foraminíferos del Rocanense de la Cuenca de Añelo (provincia de Neuquén)2
- Micropaleontología del Paleoceno de General Roca (provincia de Río Negro)2
Each of the 18 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 Nonionella cretacea
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nonionella cretacea 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 itNonionella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cushman 1931