Eiffellithus eximius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EiffellithusPBDB
- 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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
82 occurrences of Eiffellithus eximius 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
82 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
6 formations
- Second White Specks Formation · Colorado Group3
- Lindi Formation · Kilwa Group3
- Belle Fourche Formation · Colorado Group1
- Avezac Formation1
- Nangurukuru Formation · Kilwa Group1
- Mishash Formation1
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The named rock units Eiffellithus eximius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eiffellithus eximius and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eiffellithus eximius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Ahmuellerella octoradiata54 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus46 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii44 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus43 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum39 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae36 sites
- Eprolithus floralis32 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata31 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea31 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus30 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum29 sites
- Chiastozygus litterarius27 sites
- Quadrum gartneri27 sites
- Eprolithus moratus25 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum24 sites
- Micula staurophora24 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa23 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus scutula22 sites
- Broinsonia signata21 sites
- Repagulum parvidentatum19 sites
- Retecapsa surirella18 sites
- Biscutum constans17 sites
- Prediscosphaera17 sites
- Staurolithites17 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Eiffellithus eximius, 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
13 references- Site U151231
- Site U151329
- Site U15164
- Sedimentology, micropaleontology, geochemistry and hydrocarbon potential of shale from the cretaceous Lower Colorado Group in Western Canada4
- Site U15143
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania drilling project sites 21-263
- Site U13482
- Rediscovery of “Liodon” asiaticum Répelin, 1915, a Mosasaurini (Squamata, Mosasauridae, Mosasaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the vicinity of Jerusalem – Biostratigraphical insights from microfossils1
- Site U15151
- Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 27-351
- Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the lower Gosau subgroup of Eisenbach brook in Salzkammergut (Upper Austria)1
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)1
Each of the 82 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. 1 further reference is 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.
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No picture of Eiffellithus eximius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Eiffellithus eximius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eiffellithus eximius 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 itEiffellithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stover 1966)