Prediscosphaera cretacea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrediscosphaeraPBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 72 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 72 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 70 of 72 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 72 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 72 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 15 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 6 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 9 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 10 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 9 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89.8 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya54 Mya

72 occurrences of Prediscosphaera cretacea 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

72 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

8 formations

Jagüel — 38.11°S, 68.39°WJagüel — 39.86°S, 66.62°WPedro Luro — 39.71°S, 61.04°WKizilagac — 37.36°N, 27.49°EKizilagac — 37.34°N, 27.56°EPedro Luro — 39.50°S, 62.68°WBozeş — 45.92°N, 23.55°EAvezac — 43.67°N, 1.11°WCampo Bola — 51.74°S, 69.17°WColorado — 39.50°S, 62.68°W

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The named rock units Prediscosphaera cretacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prediscosphaera cretacea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Prediscosphaera cretacea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Prediscosphaera cretacea, 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

18 references

Each of the 72 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. 6 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

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What may have been alongside itPrediscosphaera through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arkhangelsky 1912)