Goniothecium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 61 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 70 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 70 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 70 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 12 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 12 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 12 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 12 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72.2 Mya13.82 Mya85 Mya10 Mya

70 occurrences of Goniothecium 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

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

9 formations

Mason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WKanguk — 75.63°N, 119.37°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSmoking Hills — 69.46°N, 126.97°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WCalvert — 37.60°N, 77.05°WChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°WKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°E

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The named rock units Goniothecium 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.

Goniothecium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Goniothecium, 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Goniothecium 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 itBacillariophyceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1843