Crenalithus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GephyrocapsaceaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
57 occurrences of Crenalithus 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
57 occurrences- Miocene5%
- Pliocene44%
- Pleistocene52%
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.
Crenalithus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Crenalithus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Reticulofenestra52 sites
- Reticulofenestra minuta48 sites
- Coccolithus pelagicus45 sites
- Dictyococcites41 sites
- Gephyrocapsa32 sites
- Pseudoemiliania29 sites
- Helicosphaera carteri27 sites
- Calcidiscus leptoporus25 sites
- Helicosphaera sellii17 sites
- Pontosphaera15 sites
- Cricolithus14 sites
- Thoracosphaera13 sites
- Cyclicargolithus floridanus12 sites
- Calcidiscus11 sites
- Braarudosphaera bigelowii10 sites
- Coccolithus10 sites
- Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus10 sites
- Emiliania8 sites
- Cyclicargolithus6 sites
- Umbilicosphaera jafari6 sites
- Scyphosphaera5 sites
- Braarudosphaera3 sites
- Discoaster deflandrei3 sites
- Helicosphaera3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Crenalithus, 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
5 references- Site U135321
- Site U135114
- Site U135411
- Site U13528
- Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic)3
Each of the 57 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. 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 content0
No picture of Crenalithus 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 Crenalithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Crenalithus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGephyrocapsaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1973