Lejeunecysta

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 101 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 101 occurrencesOligocene — about 39 of 101 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 37 of 101 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 101 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 101 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 10 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 17 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 13 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka87 Mya0 Mya

101 occurrences of Lejeunecysta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

101 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

4 formations

Monte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte Leon — 47.08°S, 66.39°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°W

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The named rock units Lejeunecysta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lejeunecysta and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Lejeunecysta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

460 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Lejeunecysta, 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

15 references

Each of the 101 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. 3 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Lejeunecysta 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 itProtoperidiniaceae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Artzner and Dörhöfer 1978