Amphizygus
No picture of Amphizygus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphizygus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChiastozygaceaePBDB
- 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 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
10 occurrences of Amphizygus 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
10 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Amphizygus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amphizygus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Amphizygus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
139 taxa- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii8 sites
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis7 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus7 sites
- Micula staurophora7 sites
- Micula concava6 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea5 sites
- Biscutum coronum4 sites
- Biscutum magnum4 sites
- Ellipsagelosphaera ovata4 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa4 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae4 sites
- Chiastozygus synquadriperforatus3 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus3 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae3 sites
- Markalius inversus3 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri3 sites
- Quadrum gartneri3 sites
- Quadrum sissinghii3 sites
- Retecapsa surirella3 sites
- Tegumentum stradneri3 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata2 sites
- Biscutum melaniae2 sites
- Braarudosphaera bigelowii2 sites
- Chiastozygus bifarius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Amphizygus, 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
4 references- Nanofósiles calcáreos del Cretácico tardío - Terciario, del Pozo BB III A x-1 (Bahía Blanca), cuenca del Colorado, Argentina6
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)2
- Late Maastrichtian to Danian organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils from eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the lower Gosau subgroup of Eisenbach brook in Salzkammergut (Upper Austria)1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Amphizygus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amphizygus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amphizygus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChiastozygaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bukry 1969