Coccolithus pelagicus

Coccolithus pelagicus

Hannes Grobe ( talk ), Alfred Wegener Institute · 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
CoccolithusPBDB
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 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 6334 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 6334 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 122 of 6334 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 580 of 6334 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 604 of 6334 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1733 of 6334 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1003 of 6334 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2268 of 6334 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 14 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 38 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 51 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 41 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 59 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 54 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 94 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 102 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 106 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 129 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 180 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 152 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 231 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 269 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 251 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 266 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 359 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 438 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 855 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 2636 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

6,334 occurrences of Coccolithus pelagicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

6,334 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

20 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EButano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WCampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WShihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WBrockenhurst Beds — 50.82°N, 1.57°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EWilliamsburg — 33.40°N, 79.93°WBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°EMonterey — 33.59°N, 117.71°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°WPaleocene subsurface — 42.49°S, 63.63°WColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°WCastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Coccolithus pelagicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6,297 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coccolithus pelagicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Coccolithus pelagicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

754 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,922 sites for Coccolithus pelagicus, 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

153 references

Each of the 6,334 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. 141 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 Coccolithus pelagicus

Credit
Hannes Grobe ( talk ), Alfred Wegener Institute
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCoccolithus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wallich 1877)