Oridorsalis

Oridorsalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RotaliidaePBDB
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 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 51 of 1345 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 28 of 1345 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 244 of 1345 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 227 of 1345 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 377 of 1345 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 140 of 1345 occurrencesPleistocene — about 273 of 1345 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–70 Mya — about 13 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 19 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 11 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 7 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 11 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 18 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 18 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 36 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 43 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 39 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 41 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 48 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 55 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 55 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 75 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 88 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 68 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 60 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 57 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 50 occurrences9.2–6.1 Mya — about 69 occurrences6.1–3.1 Mya — about 136 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 304 occurrences85.7 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

1,345 occurrences of Oridorsalis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,345 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

5 formations

El Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WIlundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WAndrew Lake — 51.96°N, 176.62°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.47°W

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The named rock units Oridorsalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,307 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oridorsalis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Oridorsalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

567 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,233 sites for Oridorsalis, and this reads 240 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

78 references

Each of the 1,345 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. 66 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 Oridorsalis

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 Oridorsalis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRotaliidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Anderson 1961