Sulcoperculina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepidorbitoidinaePBDB
- 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 most 45 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Sulcoperculina 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous87%
- Paleocene13%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Sulcoperculina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Sulcoperculina and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sulcoperculina and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Chubbina2 sites
- Kathina2 sites
- Mollusca indet.2 sites
- Orbitoides2 sites
- Rapidionina sp.2 sites
- Vaughanina2 sites
- Accordiella1 site
- Alencasterites mooretownensis1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Antillocaprina1 site
- Archaeolithothamnium1 site
- Asterorbis1 site
- Ataxophragmium1 site
- Bacinella1 site
- Bournonia1 site
- Bournonia excavata1 site
- Carcineretes planetarius1 site
- Chaetetidae1 site
- Cliona1 site
- Corallinaceae1 site
- Coralliochama1 site
- Coralliochama orcutti1 site
- Cosinella spp.1 site
- Cuneolina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Sulcoperculina, 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
6 references- Maastrichtian Crustacea (Brachyura: Decapoda) from the Ocozocuautla Formation in Chiapas, Southeast Mexico6
- Dixon, 19563
- Microborings as indication of cryptic life modes in the foraminifer Orbitoides: Maastrichtian sediments of the Haymana and Nallıhan districts (Ankara, Turkey)1
- Marine Cretaceous-Paleogene biofacies and ichnofacies in southern Tibet, China, and their sedimentary significance1
- Anatomy and evolution of the inner perimeter ridge (sites 874 and 877) of a Campanian-Maastrichtian atoll-like structure (Wodejebato Guyot, Marshall Islands)1
- Cretaceous rudists of Guatemala1
Each of the 13 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 Sulcoperculina
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Sulcoperculina 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 itLepidorbitoidinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thalmann 1939