Paralecaniella indentata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalecaniellaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Time the record covers
At most 28 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Paralecaniella indentata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous85%
- Paleocene16%
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
2 formations
- Sobral? Formation1
- Snow Hill Island Formation1
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The named rock units Paralecaniella indentata 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.
Paralecaniella indentata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paralecaniella indentata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Palambages2 sites
- Astrocysta1 site
- Azolla1 site
- Batiacasphaera1 site
- Batiacasphaera reticulata1 site
- Calamospora1 site
- Chlamydophorella1 site
- Cyatheacidites annulatus1 site
- Cyatheacidites archangelskii1 site
- Dacrycarpites australiensis1 site
- Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum1 site
- Imperobator antarcticus1 site
- Isabelidinium cretaceum1 site
- Isabelidinium pellucidum1 site
- Isabellidinium sp.1 site
- Manumiella seelandica1 site
- Michrystridium piliferum1 site
- Microcachrydites1 site
- Nothofagidites1 site
- Nothofagus1 site
- Nummus monoculatus1 site
- Operculodinium radiculatum1 site
- Paleocystodinium pilosum1 site
- Peninsulapollis gillii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paralecaniella indentata, 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
3 references- Cretaceous palynomorphs from the James Ross Island area, Antarctica - A pilot Study2
- Palynoassemblages associated with a theropod dinosaur from the Snow Hill Island Formation (lower Maastrichtian) at the Naze, James Ross Island, Antarctica1
- Cretaceous and Tertiary dinoflagellates from Seymour Island, Antarctica1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Paralecaniella indentata 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 Paralecaniella indentata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralecaniella indentata 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 itParalecaniella through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cookson and Eisenack 1970