Clathrolithus ellipticus
No picture of Clathrolithus ellipticus 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 Clathrolithus ellipticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathrolithusPBDB
- 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 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Clathrolithus ellipticus 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Clathrolithus ellipticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clathrolithus ellipticus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Clathrolithus ellipticus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis1 site
- Biantholithus sparsus1 site
- Braarudosphaera bigelowii1 site
- Cervisiella operculata1 site
- Cervisiella saxea1 site
- Chiasmolithus danicus1 site
- Coccolithus pelagicus1 site
- Cribrocentrum reticulatum1 site
- Cruciplacolithus edwardsii1 site
- Cruciplacolithus primus1 site
- Cruciplacolithus tenuis1 site
- Cyclicargolithus floridanus1 site
- Cyclicargolithus luminis1 site
- Discoaster1 site
- Discoaster saipanensis1 site
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii1 site
- Hornibrookina edwardsii1 site
- Hornibrookina teuriensis1 site
- Markalius inversus1 site
- Micrantholithus entaster1 site
- Micula concava1 site
- Micula staurophora1 site
- Neococcolithes protenus1 site
- Placozygus sigmoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Clathrolithus ellipticus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Clathrolithus ellipticus 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 Clathrolithus ellipticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clathrolithus ellipticus 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 itClathrolithus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1954