Stephanopyxis

Stephanopyxis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StephanopyxidaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 335 of 1316 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 134 of 1316 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 1316 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 1316 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 161 of 1316 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 165 of 1316 occurrencesPleistocene — about 463 of 1316 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 22 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 52 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 52 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 52 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 54 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 57 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 53 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 38 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 38 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 38 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 12 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 10 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 11 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 9 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 8 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 14 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 14 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 22 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 29 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 36 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 39 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 154 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 487 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

1,316 occurrences of Stephanopyxis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,316 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

14 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WMason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WKanguk — 75.63°N, 119.37°WKanguk — 79.00°N, 85.37°WKanguk — 78.00°N, 103.00°WSmoking Hills — 69.46°N, 126.97°WKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WDaineji — 37.37°N, 141.04°EChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WEmbetsu — 44.35°N, 141.73°ETatsunokuchi — 39.07°N, 141.18°ECalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Stephanopyxis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 826 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stephanopyxis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Stephanopyxis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

555 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 791 sites for Stephanopyxis, 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

47 references

Each of the 1,316 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. 35 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stephanopyxis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stephanopyxis 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 itStephanopyxidaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1845