Oolithotus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalcidiscaceaePBDB
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 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 181 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 181 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 181 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 47 of 181 occurrencesPleistocene — about 121 of 181 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 26 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 51 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 89 occurrences41.03 Mya11.7 ka49 Mya0 Mya

181 occurrences of Oolithotus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

181 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.

Oolithotus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Oolithotus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 181 sites for Oolithotus, 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

28 references

Each of the 181 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. 16 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Oolithotus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCalcidiscaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cohen and Reinhardt 1968