Calpionella elliptica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalpionellaPBDB
Life habit
planktonicPBDB, for Calpionellida
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Calpionellida
Environment
outer shelf,oceanic,oligotrophic,marinePBDB, for Calpionellida

Time the record covers

At least 3.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–140 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–139 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141 Mya137.05 Mya143.6 Mya132.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Calpionella elliptica on record, most of them in the Early 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

9 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

Steinmühl — 47.91°N, 14.35°E

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The named rock units Calpionella elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calpionella elliptica and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Calpionella elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Calpionella elliptica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Calpionella elliptica 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.

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What may have been alongside itCalpionella through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cadisch 1932