Staurolithites crux
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StaurolithitesPBDB
- 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 53 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.
4 occurrences of Staurolithites crux 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Staurolithites crux has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Staurolithites crux and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Staurolithites crux and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
142 taxa- Micula staurophora3 sites
- Amphizygus brooksii2 sites
- Astacolus2 sites
- Biscutum coronum2 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus2 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii2 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus2 sites
- Retecapsa crenulata2 sites
- Retecapsa surirella2 sites
- Watznaueria fossacincta2 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata1 site
- Allaruella racedense1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Anebocythereis chubutiana1 site
- Anebocythereis cretacica1 site
- Anebocythereis spinosa1 site
- Anfractus harrisonii1 site
- Argilloecia1 site
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis1 site
- Arkhangelskiella maastrichtiana1 site
- Assipetra1 site
- Astacodes falcifer1 site
- Astacolus calliopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Staurolithites crux, 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
4 references- Late Maastrichtian to Danian organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils from eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Nanofósiles calcáreos del Cretácico tardío - Terciario, del Pozo BB III A x-1 (Bahía Blanca), cuenca del Colorado, Argentina1
- Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW)1
- Ostracodos del cretacico superior de patagonia. Republica Argentina (Hoja 44e, valle general Racedo), Chubut.1
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 Staurolithites crux 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 Staurolithites crux, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Staurolithites crux 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 itStaurolithites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deflandre and Fert 1954)