Ovulites

Ovulites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UdoteaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bryopsidales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bryopsidales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Bryopsidales
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 65 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 32 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 32 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 65 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

65 occurrences of Ovulites on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

65 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

14 formations

Amapa — 3.32°N, 49.66°WLakadong — 25.19°N, 91.76°ESinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°ESinjar — 36.39°N, 41.61°ESinjar — 36.36°N, 41.83°ESinjar — 36.34°N, 41.73°EZongpu — 28.07°N, 89.19°EZongpu — 28.29°N, 88.59°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.66°EZongpu — 28.30°N, 88.51°EJafnayn — 22.68°N, 59.37°ESylhet Limestone — 22.31°N, 88.28°ESylhet Limestone — 22.59°N, 88.01°ESylhet Limestone — 23.10°N, 88.55°ESylhet Limestone — 22.21°N, 88.17°ESylhet Limestone — 22.90°N, 88.50°EZhepure Shan — 28.65°N, 87.16°EFulra — 23.81°N, 69.07°ESouth Galala — 28.90°N, 32.32°EShella — 25.43°N, 92.25°ELameta — 21.37°N, 77.55°EAit Ouarhitane — 33.22°N, 5.03°WUmlatodoh Limestone — 25.19°N, 92.39°EUmlatdoh Limestone — 25.17°N, 92.38°E

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The named rock units Ovulites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovulites and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ovulites and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Ovulites, 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

17 references

Each of the 65 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. 5 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 content1

Picture of Ovulites

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ovulites 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.

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What may have been alongside itUdoteaceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1816