Ovulites pyriformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OvulitesPBDB
- 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 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ovulites pyriformis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Ovulites pyriformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ovulites pyriformis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ovulites pyriformis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Ovulites arabica3 sites
- Acicularia2 sites
- Alveolina2 sites
- Halimeda cylindracea2 sites
- Halimeda fragilis2 sites
- Halimeda tuna2 sites
- Lockhartia2 sites
- Nummulites2 sites
- Ovulites margaritula2 sites
- Textularia2 sites
- Belzungia1 site
- Borelis1 site
- Corallina matansa1 site
- Daviesina1 site
- Discocyclina1 site
- Furcoporella1 site
- Halimeda1 site
- Jania occidentalis1 site
- Lithoporella melobesioides1 site
- Neomeris1 site
- Operculina1 site
- Orbitolites1 site
- Rotalia1 site
- Sporolithon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ovulites pyriformis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Calcareous algal-rich carbonate sediments from Assam shelf, N-E India: an overview of the palaeoenvironmental implications2
- The early Tertiary (middle-late Paleocene) limestones from the western Gulf of Suez, Egypt1
Each of the 3 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 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 Ovulites pyriformis 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 Ovulites pyriformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ovulites pyriformis 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 itOvulites through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schwager 1883