Biddulphia

Biddulphia is a genus of diatoms within the clade Biddulphiophycidae.

Biddulphia

Wachnick at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BiddulphiaceaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 19 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 19 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 19 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 19 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 19 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 19 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–3.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72.2 Mya7.246 Mya85 Mya4 Mya

19 occurrences of Biddulphia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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

7 formations

Lopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WRosarito Beach — 32.12°N, 116.80°WMason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°E

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The named rock units Biddulphia 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.

Biddulphia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Biddulphia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

394 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Biddulphia, 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

7 references

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 content1

Picture of Biddulphia

Credit
Wachnick at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821