Ceratiaceae

Ceratiaceae is a family of dinoflagellates in the order Gonyaulacales.

Ceratiaceae

Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
GonyaulacalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 81 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 224 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 99 of 224 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 118 of 224 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 224 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 224 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 224 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 6 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 6 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 8 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 15 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 19 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 20 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 10 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 6 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 4 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 11 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 27 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 21 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 18 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 18 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137.05 Mya56 Mya145 Mya32 Mya

224 occurrences of Ceratiaceae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

224 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

26 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WSanta Marta — 63.75°S, 58.00°WSanta Marta — 64.23°S, 56.62°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WSanta Marta — 64.21°S, 57.18°WSanta Marta — 64.27°S, 57.30°WAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°WAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EKotick Point — 63.86°S, 58.09°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WAgrio — 38.42°S, 70.00°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 57.95°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.04°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ESpringhill — 52.77°S, 68.70°WLagrelius Point — 63.94°S, 58.29°WLópez de Bertodano — 63.99°S, 57.43°WPedersen — 63.92°S, 58.25°WHidden Like — 63.84°S, 57.90°WLa Anita — 49.81°S, 72.18°WAlam El Bueib — 30.93°N, 26.28°EAlamein — 30.93°N, 26.28°EBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WTunbridge Wells Sand — 51.08°N, 0.05°WWeald Clay — 51.15°N, 0.32°WLadegardsaen — 82.42°N, 23.17°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EPampa Rincón — 52.77°S, 68.70°W

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The named rock units Ceratiaceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratiaceae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ceratiaceae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

536 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Ceratiaceae, 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

25 references

Each of the 224 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 Ceratiaceae

Credit
Minami Himemiya
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratiaceae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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 itGonyaulacales through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindemann 1928