Cribrocentrum

Searched as Cribrocentrum reticulatum. The Paleobiology Database treats Cribrocentrum as the accepted name.

Cribrocentrum

Dr Paul R. Bown · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
NoelaerhabdaceaePBDB
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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 13 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya37.71 Mya85 Mya22 Mya

15 occurrences of Cribrocentrum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

15 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

2 formations

Marne di Priabona — 45.50°N, 11.75°EPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Cribrocentrum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cribrocentrum and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cribrocentrum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cribrocentrum, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Cribrocentrum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr Paul R. Bown
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cribrocentrum 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 itNoelaerhabdaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perch-Nielsen 1971