Cyclicargolithus

Cyclicargolithus

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
CoccolithophyceaePBDB
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 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 2524 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 2524 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 280 of 2524 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 623 of 2524 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1134 of 2524 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 139 of 2524 occurrencesPleistocene — about 338 of 2524 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 13 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 19 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 19 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 36 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 40 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 40 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 50 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 56 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 129 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 103 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 197 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 240 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 281 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 244 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 220 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 160 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 83 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 94 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 133 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 357 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

2,524 occurrences of Cyclicargolithus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

2,524 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

4 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°E

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The named rock units Cyclicargolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2,513 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclicargolithus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cyclicargolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

157 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,706 sites for Cyclicargolithus, and this reads 240 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

83 references

Each of the 2,524 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. 71 further references are not listed. 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 Cyclicargolithus

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

No 3D scan of Cyclicargolithus 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 itCoccolithophyceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bukry 1971