Chiropteridium
Searched as Chiropteridium galea. The Paleobiology Database treats Chiropteridium as the accepted name.
No picture of Chiropteridium 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 Chiropteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DinophyceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At most 43 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Chiropteridium on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 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 Chiropteridium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Chiropteridium and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Chiropteridium and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
449 taxa- Distatodinium4 sites
- Glaphyrocysta4 sites
- Dapsilidinium3 sites
- Homotryblium3 sites
- Lingulodinium3 sites
- Pentadinium3 sites
- Achomosphaera2 sites
- Apteodinium2 sites
- Areoligera2 sites
- Artemisiocysta2 sites
- Batiacasphaera2 sites
- Betula2 sites
- Carya2 sites
- Cleistosphaeridium2 sites
- Comptonia2 sites
- Cordosphaeridium2 sites
- Deflandrea2 sites
- Engelhardia2 sites
- Enneadocysta2 sites
- Hystrichokolpoma cinctum2 sites
- Lejeunecysta2 sites
- Licracysta ? semicirculata2 sites
- Opalia2 sites
- Phthanoperidinium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Chiropteridium, 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
2 references- A late Oligocene molluscan fauna and Oligocene coastal outcrops from Vilsund, NW Denmark3
- Primera ingresión atlántica en Peninsula de Valdés: Bioestratigrafía, paleoambiente y paleoclima del Daniano1
Each of the 4 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 Chiropteridium 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 Chiropteridium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Chiropteridium 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 itDinophyceae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gocht 1960