Cruciplacolithus tenuis

Cruciplacolithus tenuis

Ian Probert · 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
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 84 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145 Mya58 Mya

8 occurrences of Cruciplacolithus tenuis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

8 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

6 formations

Campo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WCampo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WPaleocene subsurface — 42.48°S, 63.62°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°W

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The named rock units Cruciplacolithus tenuis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cruciplacolithus tenuis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Cruciplacolithus tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

103 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cruciplacolithus tenuis, 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 8 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 Cruciplacolithus tenuis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Ian Probert
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cruciplacolithus tenuis 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 itCruciplacolithus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stradner 1961)