Sphenolithus heteromorphus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenolithusPBDB
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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 7 of 456 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 456 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 456 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 456 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 386 of 456 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 456 occurrencesPleistocene — about 40 of 456 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 60 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 120 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 130 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 43 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 18 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 22 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 44 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

456 occurrences of Sphenolithus heteromorphus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

456 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

3 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EItahashi — 34.86°N, 133.00°ELithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°E

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The named rock units Sphenolithus heteromorphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 447 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenolithus heteromorphus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sphenolithus heteromorphus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 454 sites for Sphenolithus heteromorphus, and this reads 240 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

50 references

Each of the 456 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. 38 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 content0

No picture of Sphenolithus heteromorphus 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 Sphenolithus heteromorphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenolithus heteromorphus 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 itSphenolithus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1953