Chomotriletes fragilis

No picture of Chomotriletes fragilis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chomotriletes fragilis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChomotriletesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 82 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences177–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–150 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154.8 Mya72.2 Mya177 Mya64 Mya

7 occurrences of Chomotriletes fragilis 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

7 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

4 formations

Burg El-Arab — 30.99°N, 27.77°EDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°EKhatatba — 30.99°N, 27.77°EHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°W

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The named rock units Chomotriletes fragilis 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.

Chomotriletes fragilis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Chomotriletes fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Chomotriletes fragilis, 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

Each of the 7 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 Chomotriletes fragilis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Chomotriletes fragilis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Chomotriletes fragilis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1962