Pentellina

Pentellina

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya37.71 Mya87 Mya33 Mya

2 occurrences of Pentellina 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

2 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.

Pentellina and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pentellina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pentellina, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pentellina

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pentellina 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itForaminifera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.