Rotorbinella

Rotorbinella

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 90 of 91 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 91 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 91 occurrencesMiocene95–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 4 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 8 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 35 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 32 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85.7 Mya23.04 Mya95 Mya14 Mya

91 occurrences of Rotorbinella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

91 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

3 formations

Cesarea Limestone — 40.06°N, 18.43°ECiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°E

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The named rock units Rotorbinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rotorbinella and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rotorbinella, 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

7 references

Each of the 91 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 Rotorbinella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Rotorbinella 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 itDiscorbidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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