Reticulofenestra reticulata
Dr Richard B. Pearce · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- ReticulofenestraPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Reticulofenestra reticulata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Reticulofenestra reticulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Reticulofenestra reticulata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Reticulofenestra reticulata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
67 taxa- Discoaster3 sites
- Reticulofenestra umbilicus3 sites
- Blackites2 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis2 sites
- Acantholambrus baumi1 site
- Acarinina1 site
- Acarinina bullbrooki1 site
- Acarinina pentacamerata1 site
- Acarinina rohri1 site
- Acarinina topilensis1 site
- Areoligera coronata1 site
- Areosphaeridium1 site
- Braarudosphaera1 site
- Calappilia sitzi1 site
- Campylosphaera1 site
- Catapsydrax1 site
- Ceronnectes granulosa1 site
- Chiasmolithus1 site
- Chiasmolithus grandis1 site
- Chiasmolithus solitus1 site
- Chiloguembelina1 site
- Clathrolithus1 site
- Coccolithus1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Reticulofenestra reticulata, 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
2 references- Dinoflagellate cyst and nannoplankton assemblages from the Middle Eocene Kuma Formation of Crimean Peninsula — biostratigraphy and palynofacies2
- Age of the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Reticulofenestra reticulata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Richard B. Pearce
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Reticulofenestra reticulata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itReticulofenestra through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth and Thierstein 1972