Cyclagelosphaera alta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclagelosphaeraPBDB
- 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 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cyclagelosphaera alta on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Paleocene50%
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
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The named rock units Cyclagelosphaera alta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclagelosphaera alta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cyclagelosphaera alta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Cervisiella operculata6 sites
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis5 sites
- Markalius apertus5 sites
- Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii4 sites
- Markalius inversus4 sites
- Cervisiella saxea3 sites
- Eiffellithus gorkae3 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii3 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus3 sites
- Micula concava3 sites
- Micula cubiformis3 sites
- Micula murus3 sites
- Micula staurophora3 sites
- Placozygus sigmoides3 sites
- Placozygus spiralis3 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri3 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae3 sites
- Acuturris scotus2 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata2 sites
- Biscutum arrogans2 sites
- Biscutum constans2 sites
- Biscutum melaniae2 sites
- Cribrosphaerella circula2 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyclagelosphaera alta, 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
3 references- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin3
- A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina2
- Late Maastrichtian to Danian organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils from eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Cyclagelosphaera alta was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cyclagelosphaera alta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclagelosphaera alta 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 itCyclagelosphaera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perch-Nielsen 1979