Nicklithus amplificus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NicklithusPBDB
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 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 5.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 5 Mya.

Paleocene — about 4 of 102 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 102 occurrencesMiocene — about 97 of 102 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 102 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.8–7.8 Mya — about 22 occurrences7.8–5.8 Mya — about 55 occurrences5.8–3.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences59.24 Mya5.6 Mya63 Mya4 Mya

102 occurrences of Nicklithus amplificus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

102 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

1 formation

Mikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Nicklithus amplificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 101 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nicklithus amplificus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nicklithus amplificus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 101 sites for Nicklithus amplificus, 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

26 references

Each of the 102 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. 14 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Nicklithus amplificus 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 itNicklithus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bukry and Percival 1971)