Valensiella
No picture of Valensiella 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 Valensiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GonyaulacalesPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 31 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 132.6 Mya.
13 occurrences of Valensiella on record, most of them in the Early 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
13 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Valensiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Valensiella and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Valensiella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Cleistosphaeridium8 sites
- Cribroperidinium8 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)8 sites
- Lenticulina8 sites
- Cyclonephelium7 sites
- Hystrichodinium pulchrum7 sites
- Pareodinia7 sites
- Sirmiodinium grossii7 sites
- Trichodinium7 sites
- Astacolus6 sites
- Circulodinium6 sites
- Dingodinium5 sites
- Gochteodinia villosa5 sites
- Gonyaulacysta5 sites
- Haplophragmoides5 sites
- Nodosaria5 sites
- Sentusidinium5 sites
- Ammodiscus4 sites
- Apteodinium4 sites
- Chlamydophorella4 sites
- Dichotomites4 sites
- Geinitzinita4 sites
- Globulina chetaensis berriassica4 sites
- Orietalia4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Valensiella, 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- Distribution of ammonites, foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts in the Lower Cretaceous reference sections of the Khatanga Basin, and Boreal Valanginian biogeography9
- Ammonites, Microfauna, and Palynomorphs from the Lower Part of the Upper Bajocian Parkinsoni Zone of the Basin of the Bolshoi Zelenchuk River, Northern Caucasus4
Each of the 13 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Valensiella 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 Valensiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Valensiella 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGonyaulacales through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eisenack 1963