Bomolithus

No picture of Bomolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Bomolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeliolithaceaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 24 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 24 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89.8 Mya56 Mya95 Mya33 Mya

24 occurrences of Bomolithus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

24 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.

Bomolithus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Bomolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

21 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Bomolithus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 24 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. 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 Bomolithus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Bomolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bomolithus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHeliolithaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1973