Helicolithus compactus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicolithusPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
12 occurrences of Helicolithus compactus 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
12 occurrencesThese 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.
Helicolithus compactus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Helicolithus compactus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii12 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae12 sites
- Broinsonia signata11 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata11 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus11 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata10 sites
- Chiastozygus platyrhethus10 sites
- Cretarhabdus10 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus10 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus10 sites
- Broinsonia enormis9 sites
- Eiffellithus9 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum9 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa9 sites
- Rhagodiscus angustus9 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus scutula9 sites
- Chiastozygus litterarius8 sites
- Eprolithus floralis8 sites
- Staurolithites8 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum7 sites
- Helicolithus trabeculatus7 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum7 sites
- Biscutum6 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Helicolithus compactus, 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
2 referencesEach of the 12 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
Media content0
No picture of Helicolithus compactus 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 Helicolithus compactus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicolithus compactus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHelicolithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bukry 1969)