Toweius occultatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ToweiusPBDB
- 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 most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Toweius occultatus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Toweius occultatus 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.
Toweius occultatus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Toweius occultatus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Coccolithus pelagicus5 sites
- Pontosphaera pulchra5 sites
- Praeprinsius dimorphosus5 sites
- Cervisiella operculata4 sites
- Chiasmolithus consuetus4 sites
- Markalius inversus4 sites
- Reticulofenestra bisecta filewiczii4 sites
- Reticulofenestra dictyoda4 sites
- Reticulofenestra minuta4 sites
- Toweius callosus4 sites
- Toweius eminens4 sites
- Chiasmolithus bidens3 sites
- Cruciplacolithus primus3 sites
- Hornibrookina teuriensis3 sites
- Markalius apertus3 sites
- Neococcolithes protenus3 sites
- Reticulofenestra daviesil3 sites
- Cervisiella saxea2 sites
- Chiasmolithus danicus2 sites
- Coccolithaceae2 sites
- Prinsius dimorphosus2 sites
- Reticulofenestra bisecta2 sites
- Reticulofenestra minutula2 sites
- Sullivania danica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Toweius occultatus, 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
2 references- Paleogene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy for two boreholes in the eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina4
- Nanofósiles calcáreos paleógenos del sudeste de la provincia de Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina2
Each of the 6 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 Toweius occultatus 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 Toweius occultatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Toweius occultatus 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 itToweius through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Locker 1967)