Enneadocysta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CladopyxiaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.
18 occurrences of Enneadocysta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
18 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Oligocene22%
- Miocene22%
- Pliocene11%
- Pleistocene11%
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
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The named rock units Enneadocysta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enneadocysta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Enneadocysta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
321 taxa- Foraminifera8 sites
- <Amorphous organic matter>7 sites
- <Black phytoclasts>7 sites
- <Brown phytoclasts>7 sites
- Acritarcha7 sites
- Dinoflagellata7 sites
- <Fungal spores>6 sites
- <Other pollen>6 sites
- <Pollen/spores reworked>6 sites
- <Saccate pollen>6 sites
- <Spores>6 sites
- <Sporomorphs>6 sites
- Deflandrea6 sites
- Distatodinium6 sites
- Nothofagus6 sites
- Prasinophytae6 sites
- Vozzhennikovia6 sites
- Brigantedinium5 sites
- Lejeunecysta4 sites
- Palaeocystodinium4 sites
- Phthanoperidinium4 sites
- Batiacasphaera3 sites
- Impagidinium3 sites
- Wilsonidium3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Enneadocysta, 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- Dinoflagellate cyst and nannoplankton assemblages from the Middle Eocene Kuma Formation of Crimean Peninsula — biostratigraphy and palynofacies6
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe3
- Site U15212
- Site U15222
- Site U15242
- Site U13602
- A late Oligocene molluscan fauna and Oligocene coastal outcrops from Vilsund, NW Denmark1
Each of the 18 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 Enneadocysta 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 Enneadocysta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Enneadocysta 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 itCladopyxiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover and Williams 1995