Broinsonia enormis
No picture of Broinsonia enormis 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 Broinsonia enormis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BroinsoniaPBDB
- 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 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
27 occurrences of Broinsonia enormis 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
27 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.
Broinsonia enormis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Broinsonia enormis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Ahmuellerella octoradiata27 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus27 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae27 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum26 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata26 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus26 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii25 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus25 sites
- Broinsonia signata24 sites
- Eprolithus floralis23 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus scutula22 sites
- Eiffellithus21 sites
- Chiastozygus litterarius19 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa19 sites
- Staurolithites19 sites
- Chiastozygus platyrhethus15 sites
- Cretarhabdus15 sites
- Eprolithus moratus15 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum15 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus12 sites
- Helicolithus trabeculatus12 sites
- Retecapsa surirella12 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum12 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea11 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Broinsonia enormis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 27 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
Media content0
No picture of Broinsonia enormis 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 Broinsonia enormis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Broinsonia enormis 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 itBroinsonia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shumenko 1968)