Detonula

Detonula is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Thalassiosiraceae.

Detonula

Mark Webber · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
SkeletonemaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 780 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 1 of 61 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 60 of 61 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 61 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.1–957 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences957 ka–820 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences820 ka–683 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences683 ka–547 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence547 ka–410 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence410 ka–273 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence273 ka–137 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence137 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.58 Mya1.8 Mya4.1 Mya0 Mya

61 occurrences of Detonula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

61 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.

Detonula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Detonula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Detonula, 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 61 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Detonula

Source
GBIF
Credit
Mark Webber
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itSkeletonemaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Toni 1894