Thalassiosira

No picture of Thalassiosira was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Thalassiosira itself, so it was not used. 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 Thalassiosira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 4876 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 4876 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 511 of 4876 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 963 of 4876 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3295 of 4876 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 7 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 7 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 19 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 21 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 21 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 25 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 66 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 66 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 67 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 76 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 78 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 246 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 370 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 636 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 1650 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 1493 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

4,876 occurrences of Thalassiosira 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

4,876 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

7 formations

Embetsu — 44.35°N, 141.73°EDaineji — 37.37°N, 141.04°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WMochikubetsu — 44.38°N, 141.71°EKinkomanai — 44.54°N, 141.82°EChepotsunai — 44.32°N, 141.67°E

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The named rock units Thalassiosira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4,851 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thalassiosira and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Thalassiosira and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

288 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 798 sites for Thalassiosira, 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

61 references

Each of the 4,876 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. 49 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 content0

No picture of Thalassiosira was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Thalassiosira itself, so it was not used.

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 Thalassiosira, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thalassiosira 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 itThalassiosiraceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cleve 1873