Amaurolithus

No picture of Amaurolithus 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 Amaurolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeratolithaceaePBDB
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 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 79.5 Mya to 990 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 863 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 863 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 18 of 863 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 863 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 496 of 863 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 331 of 863 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 863 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–8.7 Mya — about 69 occurrences8.7–5.8 Mya — about 337 occurrences5.8–2.9 Mya — about 379 occurrences2.9–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences79.5 Mya990 ka87 Mya0 Mya

863 occurrences of Amaurolithus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

863 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

1 formation

Mikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°E

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The named rock units Amaurolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 862 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amaurolithus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Amaurolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

93 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 598 sites for Amaurolithus, 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

49 references

Each of the 863 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. 37 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 Amaurolithus 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 Amaurolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Amaurolithus 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.

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What may have been alongside itCeratolithaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gartner and Bukry 1975