Deflandrea

Deflandrea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeridiniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 95 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 29 of 80 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 24 of 80 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 80 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 80 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 80 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 5 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 9 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 9 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 9 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 6 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 6 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–8.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences8.7–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–116 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100.5 Mya5.333 Mya128 Mya116 ka

80 occurrences of Deflandrea on record. 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

80 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

12 formations

Bima — 12.08°N, 13.14°EKerrikerri — 12.08°N, 13.14°EJagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.72°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 33.46°N, 88.85°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff Chalk — 32.14°N, 87.40°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WPaleocene subsurface — 42.49°S, 63.63°WWaipara Greensand — 43.03°S, 172.53°EPiney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EPeñas Coloradas — 45.72°S, 70.58°W

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The named rock units Deflandrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Deflandrea, 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

16 references

Each of the 80 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. 4 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 Deflandrea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deflandrea 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1938