Toweius

Searched as Toweius pertusus. The Paleobiology Database treats Toweius as the accepted name.

No picture of Toweius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Toweius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrinsiaceaPBDB
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 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 137 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 137 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 71 of 137 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 137 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 137 occurrencesMiocene — about 12 of 137 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 137 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 137 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 16 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 36 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 19 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 13 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 11 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

137 occurrences of Toweius 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

137 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

4 formations

Campo Bola — 52.17°S, 69.04°WDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EWilliamsburg — 33.40°N, 79.93°WPaleocene subsurface — 42.49°S, 63.63°W

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The named rock units Toweius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 131 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Toweius and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Toweius and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 295 sites for Toweius, 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

21 references

Each of the 137 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. 9 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 Toweius was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Toweius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPrinsiacea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay and Mohler 1973