Pararotalia

Pararotalia

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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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 15 of 41 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 41 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 41 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 41 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 41 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 41 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–56 Mya — about 11 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya774 ka74 Mya0 Mya

41 occurrences of Pararotalia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

41 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

13 formations

Molare — 44.37°N, 8.20°EAl Jir — 30.94°N, 15.50°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.20°WMarada — 29.23°N, 19.20°EWadi Thamat — 29.98°N, 17.73°EZiman — 29.38°N, 15.70°EEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.45°N, 11.58°EOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°ETorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°EJagüel — 35.83°S, 69.67°W

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The named rock units Pararotalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pararotalia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Pararotalia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

461 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Pararotalia, 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

20 references

Each of the 41 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. 8 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 Pararotalia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pararotalia 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.