Cruciplacolithus staurion
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CruciplacolithusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cruciplacolithus staurion 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
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Cruciplacolithus staurion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cruciplacolithus staurion and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cruciplacolithus staurion and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- ? Towelus gammation3 sites
- Chlasmolithus consuetus3 sites
- Chlasmolithus eograndis3 sites
- Chlasmolithus grandis3 sites
- Chlasmolithus solitus3 sites
- Coccolithus3 sites
- Coccolithus formosus3 sites
- Coccolithus pelagicus3 sites
- Cuclococcolithus pseudogammation3 sites
- Discoaster3 sites
- Discoasteroides3 sites
- Helicosphaera3 sites
- Helicosphaera lophota3 sites
- Micrantholithus3 sites
- Nannotetrina3 sites
- Neococcolithes dubius3 sites
- Pontosphaera3 sites
- Pontosphaera multipora3 sites
- Reticulofenestra3 sites
- Reticulofenestra dictyoda3 sites
- Rhabdosphaera3 sites
- Sphenolithus3 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis3 sites
- Sphenolithus radians3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cruciplacolithus staurion, 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 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cruciplacolithus staurion 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 Cruciplacolithus staurion, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cruciplacolithus staurion 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 itCruciplacolithus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bramlette and Sullivan 1961)