Endictya

Endictya

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndictyaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 13 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 70 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 70 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 4 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 8 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 16 occurrences72.2 Mya2.58 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Endictya on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

70 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

3 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°W

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The named rock units Endictya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Endictya and its relatives

Miocene

Where Endictya and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Endictya, 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

7 references

Each of the 70 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 content1

Picture of Endictya

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEndictyaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1845