Ceratolithus

Ceratolithus

Michal Kucera · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CeratolithaceaePBDB
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 471 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesOrdovician — about 30 of 1272 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1272 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 1272 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 1272 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 1272 occurrencesMiocene — about 116 of 1272 occurrencesPliocene — about 507 of 1272 occurrencesPleistocene — about 605 of 1272 occurrences488–472 Mya — about 15 occurrences472–456 Mya — about 14 occurrences456–440 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 1229 occurrences471.3 Mya11.7 ka488 Mya0 Mya

1,272 occurrences of Ceratolithus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,272 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

9 formations

Dawan — 33.00°N, 111.00°EDawan — 32.00°N, 108.00°EDawan — 30.00°N, 116.00°EDawan — 30.90°N, 111.39°EDawan — 30.86°N, 110.37°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 29.00°N, 107.00°EMeitan — 28.00°N, 105.00°EZhitai — 29.00°N, 109.00°EXiliangsi — 32.00°N, 106.00°EHongsiya — 26.00°N, 102.00°EShinianpan — 32.00°N, 118.00°EBaota — 33.00°N, 106.00°EChaochiapa — 32.76°N, 106.36°ESiliangssu — 33.06°N, 106.63°E

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The named rock units Ceratolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,243 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ceratolithus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ceratolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,012 sites for Ceratolithus, and this reads 240 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

91 references

Each of the 1,272 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. 79 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ceratolithus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Michal Kucera
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ceratolithus 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.

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What may have been alongside itCeratolithaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1950