Watznaueria ovata
No picture of Watznaueria ovata 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 Watznaueria ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- WatznaueriaPBDB
- 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 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
19 occurrences of Watznaueria ovata on record, most of them in the Late 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
19 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.
Watznaueria ovata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Watznaueria ovata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Watznaueria barnesiae18 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus17 sites
- Eprolithus floralis16 sites
- Broinsonia signata15 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata14 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii14 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum14 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus13 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata13 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus12 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea11 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum11 sites
- Chiastozygus litterarius10 sites
- Eiffellithus eximius10 sites
- Retecapsa surirella10 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus scutula9 sites
- Eiffellithus8 sites
- Biscutum constans7 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa7 sites
- Repagulum parvidentatum7 sites
- Chiastozygus platyrhethus6 sites
- Marthasterites furcatus6 sites
- Micula staurophora6 sites
- Staurolithites6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Watznaueria ovata, 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
3 references- Site U151215
- Site U15163
- Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW)1
Each of the 19 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 Watznaueria ovata 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 Watznaueria ovata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Watznaueria ovata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itWatznaueria through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bukry 1969