Ellipsoidictyum cinctum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 9.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 152.21 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic169–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences159–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya159 Mya169.1 Mya151.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Ellipsoidictyum cinctum on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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 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

1 formation

Djangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°E

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The named rock units Ellipsoidictyum cinctum 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.

Ellipsoidictyum cinctum and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Ellipsoidictyum cinctum and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ellipsoidictyum cinctum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

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

No 3D scan of Ellipsoidictyum cinctum 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 itEllipsoidictyum through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klement 1960