PaleoTax User

Orbitolinidae / Cretaceous / Worldwide

Hannes Löser
Estación Regional del Noroeste
Instituto de Geología, UNAM
Hermosillo, Sonora, México 83000

• Systematic : Family Orbitolinidae (Foraminifera)
• Stratigraphic : Cretaceous (Valanginian - Cenomanian)
• Geographic : Worldwide

Why ?

• Information system
• For taxonomic work
• Stratigraphy
• Estimation on palaeobiogeography, diversity, evolution ...

Data

• 300 References
• 43 Genera
• 225 Species
• 1,200 Citations (almost completely recorded up to 2006)
• 6,600 (Jurassic/Cretaceous) localities are shared with the coral and nerineid database, at 800 localities Orbitolinids are indicated