Lithomespilus
No picture of Lithomespilus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Lithomespilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StylosphaeridaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 61.66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
61 occurrences of Lithomespilus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
61 occurrences- Late Cretaceous21%
- Paleocene79%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lithomespilus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 36 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lithomespilus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Lithomespilus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Dictyomitra andersoni60 sites
- Actinomminae59 sites
- Amphipyndax stocki58 sites
- Myllocercion57 sites
- Stichomitra carnegiense57 sites
- Eucyrtidiidae52 sites
- Theocampe51 sites
- Amphisphaera50 sites
- Dictyomitra multicostata46 sites
- Lithelius46 sites
- Theocapsomma45 sites
- Mita44 sites
- Stichomitra44 sites
- Spongotrochus43 sites
- Lithomelissa42 sites
- Amphipternis40 sites
- Spongodiscidae40 sites
- Cyrtocapsa39 sites
- Cornutella californica37 sites
- Spongodiscus37 sites
- Siphocampe36 sites
- Stichomitra bertrandi36 sites
- Dictyomitra35 sites
- Lithocampe35 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 61 sites for Lithomespilus, 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 references- Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand60
- Uppermost Maastrichtian Radiolaria from the Magura Nappe deposits, Czech Outer Carpathians1
Each of the 61 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Lithomespilus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Lithomespilus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lithomespilus 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 itStylosphaeridae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1887