Prolixosphaeridium

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DinophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 10 occurrencesLate Cretaceous161–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences146–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–140 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences140–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152.21 Mya85.7 Mya161 Mya70 Mya

10 occurrences of Prolixosphaeridium on record, most of them in the Early 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

10 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

5 formations

Kotick Point — 63.86°S, 58.09°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WPampa Rincón — 52.77°S, 68.70°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°W

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The named rock units Prolixosphaeridium 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.

Prolixosphaeridium and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Prolixosphaeridium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

105 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Prolixosphaeridium, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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 Prolixosphaeridium 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 Prolixosphaeridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Prolixosphaeridium 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 itDinophyceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davey 1966