Biscutum dissimilis
No picture of Biscutum dissimilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Biscutum dissimilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BiscutumPBDB
- 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 most 35 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Biscutum dissimilis 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Biscutum dissimilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Biscutum dissimilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Quadrum gartneri5 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum5 sites
- Biscutum coronum4 sites
- Broinsonia furtiva4 sites
- Lucianorhabdus cayeuxii4 sites
- Prediscosphaera4 sites
- Reinhardtites4 sites
- Reinhardtites anthophorus4 sites
- Lithastrinus grillii3 sites
- Misceomarginatus pleniporus3 sites
- Eprolithus floralis2 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata1 site
- Chiastozygus litterarius1 site
- Eiffellithus eximius1 site
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii1 site
- Eprolithus moratus1 site
- Gartnerago segmentatum1 site
- Kamptnerius magnificus1 site
- Lithraphidites carniolensis1 site
- Manivitella pemmatoidea1 site
- Marthasterites furcatus1 site
- Prediscosphaera columnata1 site
- Prediscosphaera cretacea1 site
- Prediscosphaera spinosa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Biscutum dissimilis, 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 referencesEach of the 5 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 Biscutum dissimilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Biscutum dissimilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Biscutum dissimilis 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 itBiscutum through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wind and Wise 1977