Ceratolithoides aculeus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratolithoidesPBDB
- 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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ceratolithoides aculeus 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
2 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
2 formations
- Nangurukuru Formation · Kilwa Group1
- Mishash Formation1
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The named rock units Ceratolithoides aculeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratolithoides aculeus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ceratolithoides aculeus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Contusotruncana2 sites
- Globotruncana2 sites
- Uniplanarius sissinghii2 sites
- Ahmuellerella regularis1 site
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis1 site
- Arkhangelskiella specillata1 site
- Aspidolithus1 site
- Bukryaster hayi1 site
- Eiffellithus eximius1 site
- Globigerinelloides1 site
- Globigerinelloides prairiehillensis1 site
- Globotruncana bulloides1 site
- Globotruncana hilli1 site
- Globotruncana rosetta1 site
- Globotruncanita elevata1 site
- Kamptnerius magnificus1 site
- Lithastrinus grillii1 site
- Misceomarginatus pleniporus1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Mosasaurinae1 site
- Mosasaurini1 site
- Muricohedbergella1 site
- Planoheterohelix1 site
- Prediscosphaera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ceratolithoides aculeus, 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- Rediscovery of “Liodon” asiaticum Répelin, 1915, a Mosasaurini (Squamata, Mosasauridae, Mosasaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the vicinity of Jerusalem – Biostratigraphical insights from microfossils1
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 27-351
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Ceratolithoides aculeus 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 Ceratolithoides aculeus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratolithoides aculeus 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 itCeratolithoides through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stradner 1961)