Navicula lyra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NaviculaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 2.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 1.9 Mya.
11 occurrences of Navicula lyra on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 occurrences- Miocene48%
- Pliocene23%
- Pleistocene28%
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
3 formations
- Rosarito Beach Formation2
- Choptank Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- Formación Coquimbo Formation1
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The named rock units Navicula lyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Navicula lyra and its relatives
MioceneWhere Navicula lyra and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
270 taxa- Actinocyclus8 sites
- Actinocyclus ellipticus7 sites
- Thalassionema7 sites
- Chaetoceros6 sites
- Diploneis6 sites
- Actinocyclus octonarius5 sites
- Paralia sulcata5 sites
- Actinoptychus senarius4 sites
- Coscinodiscus marginatus4 sites
- Distephanus speculum4 sites
- Nitzschia4 sites
- Stephanopyxis4 sites
- Thalassiosira4 sites
- Thalassiothrix longissima4 sites
- Actinocyclus ingens3 sites
- Actinoptychus3 sites
- Biddulphia aurita3 sites
- Coscinodiscus curvatulus3 sites
- Coscinodiscus excentricus3 sites
- Cyclotella3 sites
- Ethmodiscus3 sites
- Rossiella3 sites
- Shionodiscus3 sites
- Actiniscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Navicula lyra, 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
5 references- Site U14456
- Paleontology of the Middle Miocene Los Indios Member of the Rosarito Beach Formation, Northwestern Baja California, Mexico2
- Geología del Área de Adacollo-Puerto Aldea, Región de Coquimbo, Carta No. 961
- Miocene marine diatoms from the Choptank Formation, Calvert County, Maryland1
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants1
Each of the 11 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 content1
Picture of Navicula lyra
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Navicula lyra 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 itNavicula through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1843