Rugoglobigerina macrocephala

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RugoglobigerinaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Globigerinina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Globigerinina

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 56 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 102 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 68 of 102 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 34 of 102 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 102 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 16 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 16 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 16 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 16 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

102 occurrences of Rugoglobigerina macrocephala on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

102 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

7 formations

Dakhla — 26.35°N, 33.02°EEl Haria — 36.19°N, 8.71°EEl Haria — 35.95°N, 9.10°EDuwi — 30.05°N, 31.25°ECorsicana — 31.08°N, 96.83°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WJagüel — 39.77°S, 66.68°WOcozocoautla — 16.93°N, 93.08°WConway — 43.06°S, 172.58°E

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The named rock units Rugoglobigerina macrocephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rugoglobigerina macrocephala and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rugoglobigerina macrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Rugoglobigerina macrocephala, 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

10 references

Each of the 102 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

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Licence
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What may have been alongside itRugoglobigerina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broennimann 1952