Coccolithaceae

Coccolithaceae

Hannes Grobe · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoccolithalesPBDB
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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 3804 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 3804 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 239 of 3804 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1682 of 3804 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 819 of 3804 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 884 of 3804 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 3804 occurrencesPleistocene — about 139 of 3804 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 19 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 61 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 108 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 107 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 163 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 162 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 301 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 332 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 334 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 299 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 270 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 220 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 291 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 294 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 225 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 205 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 161 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 50 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 37 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 155 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

3,804 occurrences of Coccolithaceae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

3,804 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

21 formations

Campo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WCampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WMarne di Priabona — 45.50°N, 11.75°EWaipara Greensand — 43.07°S, 172.60°EBrockenhurst Beds — 50.82°N, 1.57°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EKoun — 40.50°N, 49.53°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EWilliamsburg — 33.40°N, 79.93°WKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°EButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WNovopavlovka — 44.74°N, 33.88°EAlma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EPaleocene subsurface — 42.49°S, 63.63°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Coccolithaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3,760 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coccolithaceae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Coccolithaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,178 sites for Coccolithaceae, and this reads 240 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

101 references

Each of the 3,804 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. 89 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Coccolithaceae

Credit
Hannes Grobe
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Coccolithaceae 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 itCoccolithales through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poche 1913