Amaurolithus primus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmaurolithusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 24 million years on record.
The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 2.39 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.
272 occurrences of Amaurolithus primus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
272 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Amaurolithus primus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 271 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amaurolithus primus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amaurolithus primus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Discoaster192 sites
- Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus172 sites
- Discoaster surculus160 sites
- Coccolithus pelagicus139 sites
- Discoaster brouweri137 sites
- Calcidiscus macintyrei124 sites
- Reticulofenestra124 sites
- Discoaster quinqueramus122 sites
- Calcidiscus leptoporus106 sites
- Sphenolithus abies92 sites
- Sphenolithus90 sites
- Discoaster variabilis82 sites
- Helicosphaera carteri79 sites
- Ceratolithus69 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis59 sites
- Helicosphaera sellii56 sites
- Coccolithophyceae55 sites
- Helicosphaera53 sites
- Pontosphaera49 sites
- Scyphosphaera43 sites
- Dinoflagellata37 sites
- Nicklithus amplificus34 sites
- Reticulofenestra minuta29 sites
- Triquetrorhabdulus26 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 271 sites for Amaurolithus primus, and this reads 240 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
33 references- Site U148241
- Site U147635
- Site U147430
- Site U150726
- Site U147925
- Site U147515
- Site U150612
- Site U133812
- Site U15168
- Site U13378
- Site U14897
- Site U14506
Each of the 272 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. 21 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Amaurolithus primus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amaurolithus primus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amaurolithus primus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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 itAmaurolithus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bukry and Percival 1971)