Chiastozygus litterarius
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChiastozygusPBDB
- 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 49 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 66 Mya.
55 occurrences of Chiastozygus litterarius 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
55 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Chiastozygus litterarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chiastozygus litterarius and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Chiastozygus litterarius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii43 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae42 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata41 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus40 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum39 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus39 sites
- Eprolithus floralis35 sites
- Broinsonia signata33 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus33 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea32 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata31 sites
- Eiffellithus eximius27 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus scutula27 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa26 sites
- Repagulum parvidentatum25 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum24 sites
- Eiffellithus23 sites
- Retecapsa surirella22 sites
- Staurolithites21 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum20 sites
- Broinsonia enormis19 sites
- Helicolithus trabeculatus19 sites
- Micula staurophora19 sites
- Biscutum constans18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Chiastozygus litterarius, 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
5 references- Site U151239
- Biostratigraphic events at the Barremian/Aptian boundary in the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain9
- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin3
- Site U15163
- Calcareous nannofossil events in the late cretaceous at Pedro Luro borehole, Colorado basin, Argentina1
Each of the 55 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. 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 content0
No picture of Chiastozygus litterarius 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 Chiastozygus litterarius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chiastozygus litterarius 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 itChiastozygus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Górka 1957)