Dinopterygium

No picture of Dinopterygium 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 Dinopterygium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 27 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous121–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–116 Mya — about 1 occurrence116–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–78 Mya — about 1 occurrence78–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110.1 Mya83.6 Mya120.5 Mya71.3 Mya

27 occurrences of Dinopterygium 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

27 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

5 formations

Bahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°W

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The named rock units Dinopterygium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dinopterygium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Dinopterygium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Dinopterygium, 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

5 references

Each of the 27 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 content0

No picture of Dinopterygium 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 Dinopterygium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dinopterygium 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 itGoniodomaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1935