Ranikothalia

Ranikothalia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 3.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 110 occurrencesPaleocene — about 71 of 110 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 39 of 110 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 11 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 16 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 16 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 16 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 4 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59.24 Mya – 56 Mya66.5 Mya40.5 Mya

110 occurrences of Ranikothalia on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

110 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

16 formations

Sylhet Formation — 25.26°N, 91.72°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°EBarra Honda — 10.34°N, 85.39°WBarra Honda — 9.40°N, 84.15°WBarra Honda — 9.41°N, 84.16°WBarra Honda — 9.55°N, 84.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.13°WBarra Honda — 8.40°N, 83.03°WLakadong — 25.16°N, 92.39°ELakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.19°N, 91.76°ELakadong Limestone — 25.26°N, 91.71°ETabligbo Limestone — 6.34°N, 1.11°ETaleh Zang — 33.28°N, 47.83°ELut platform — 32.72°N, 59.24°ELut platform — 32.71°N, 59.29°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°EUlukışla — 37.62°N, 35.00°ETrstelj — 45.70°N, 13.90°ESylhet — 25.23°N, 91.58°EKambuhel — 47.60°N, 13.20°EKelkaya — 37.80°N, 29.38°EDereciflik — 37.81°N, 29.37°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°E

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The named rock units Ranikothalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ranikothalia and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ranikothalia and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 108 sites for Ranikothalia, 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

22 references

Each of the 110 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. 10 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 Ranikothalia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ranikothalia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNummulitidae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Caudri 1944