Bukrylithus ambiguus

No picture of Bukrylithus ambiguus 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 Bukrylithus ambiguus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BukrylithusPBDB
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 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya134 Mya65 Mya

4 occurrences of Bukrylithus ambiguus 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

4 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.

Found in

1 formation

Jagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°W

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The named rock units Bukrylithus ambiguus 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.

Bukrylithus ambiguus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Bukrylithus ambiguus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bukrylithus ambiguus, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Bukrylithus ambiguus 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 Bukrylithus ambiguus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bukrylithus ambiguus 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.

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What may have been alongside itBukrylithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Black 1971