Pfenderina

Pfenderina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PfenderininaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 10 of 14 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous172–170 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 3 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 5 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences168.2 Mya121.4 Mya172 Mya112 Mya

14 occurrences of Pfenderina on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

14 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

Dhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 25.05°N, 45.67°EDhruma — 26.28°N, 44.83°EBedoulian — 44.40°N, 27.87°ETuwaiq Mt.Lst. — 26.20°N, 44.83°ESa Wer — 10.16°N, 43.06°ETuwaiq Mountain Limestone — 25.75°N, 45.17°E

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

Pfenderina and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Pfenderina and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

150 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pfenderina, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 Pfenderina

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

No 3D scan of Pfenderina 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 itPfenderininae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henson 1948