Sphenolithus radians

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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 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 306 occurrencesEocene — about 262 of 306 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 306 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 306 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 306 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 306 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 20 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 23 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 15 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 28 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 30 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 30 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 43 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 28 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 16 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 12 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–8.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.1–6.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.0–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences52.3 Mya129 ka60 Mya0 Mya

306 occurrences of Sphenolithus radians 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

306 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

1 formation

Butano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°W

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The named rock units Sphenolithus radians has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 303 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenolithus radians and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sphenolithus radians and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

108 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 306 sites for Sphenolithus radians, 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

23 references

Each of the 306 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. 11 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 radians was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia, Wikidata and 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 radians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenolithus radians 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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1952