Peneroplis

Peneroplis is an extant genus of benthic Foraminifera in the family Peneroplidae. The genus is also represented in the fossil record.

Peneroplis

Metodicar at Serbian Wikipedia · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CharentiidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 117 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 117 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 117 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 117 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 53 of 117 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 29 of 117 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 117 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 117 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 13 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 22 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 14 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

117 occurrences of Peneroplis 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

117 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

18 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°EQom — 35.50°N, 48.42°EAbu Roash — 30.06°N, 31.08°EChaya — 21.97°N, 70.50°EChaya — 23.33°N, 71.93°EPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°ERosignano Limestone — 43.50°N, 10.43°ETorreya — 30.18°N, 84.38°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ERancho Berlin Sandstone — 17.08°N, 92.70°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WRhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°ETerminal Complex — 41.97°N, 2.17°EPesco Falcone — 42.17°N, 14.10°ESinjar — 35.50°N, 45.33°EPakhna — 34.97°N, 34.08°EKoronia — 35.05°N, 33.15°E

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The named rock units Peneroplis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peneroplis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Peneroplis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Peneroplis, 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

37 references

Each of the 117 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. 25 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 Peneroplis

Credit
Metodicar at Serbian Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Peneroplis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCharentiidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1808