Impagidinium

Impagidinium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 84 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 21 of 68 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 68 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 68 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 68 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 68 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 68 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 68 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 5 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences85.7 Mya774 ka96 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Impagidinium on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

68 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

8 formations

Hidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WCalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°WNovopavlovka — 44.74°N, 33.88°E

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The named rock units Impagidinium 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.

Impagidinium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Impagidinium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

363 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Impagidinium, 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

18 references

Each of the 68 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Impagidinium

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Impagidinium 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 itGonyaulacaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover and Evitt 1978