Caligodinium
No picture of Caligodinium 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 Caligodinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinophyceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
5 occurrences of Caligodinium on record. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous60%
- Miocene40%
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
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The named rock units Caligodinium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Apteodinium4 sites
- Impagidinium4 sites
- Isabelidinium3 sites
- Manumiella complex3 sites
- Alterbidinium acutulum2 sites
- Batiacasphaera2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cerodinium diebelii2 sites
- Chenopodiaceae2 sites
- Cleistosphaeridium2 sites
- Deflandrea2 sites
- Distatodinium2 sites
- Ephedra2 sites
- Hafniasphaera fluens2 sites
- Juglandaceae2 sites
- Manumiella cretacea2 sites
- Manumiella druggii2 sites
- Operculodinium2 sites
- Palaeocystodinium2 sites
- Pinus2 sites
- Spiniferites2 sites
- Spiniferites ramosus2 sites
- Systematophora2 sites
- Achilleodinium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Caligodinium, 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
3 references- Stratigraphy of the Maikop Group and Pteropoda Beds in Northern Azerbaijan2
- Sedimentology and palynology of the Calafate Formation (Maastrichtian), Austral Basin, Southern Patagonia, Argentina2
- New dinoflagellate cyst species from the Calafate Formation (Maastrichtian), Austral Basin, Argentina1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Caligodinium 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 Caligodinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Caligodinium 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.
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What may have been alongside itDinophyceae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Drugg 1970