Rotalina

Rotalina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BagginidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
Environment
outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya15.98 Mya85 Mya10 Mya

4 occurrences of Rotalina on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

2 formations

Maadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EArdanatz Sandstone — 42.81°N, 1.56°W

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The named rock units Rotalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rotalina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Rotalina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rotalina, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 Rotalina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itBagginidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1828