Cavitatus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BacillariophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 19.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 48 of 51 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.7–4.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.0–3.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.2–2.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–790 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences790 ka–0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19.2 Mya2.58 Mya23.7 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Cavitatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

51 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.

Cavitatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cavitatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Cavitatus, 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

9 references

Each of the 51 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 Cavitatus 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 Cavitatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cavitatus 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 itBacillariophyceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Williams 1989