Chytroeisphaeridia

Chytroeisphaeridia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonyaulacaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 78 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 5 of 23 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous170–167 Mya — about 3 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 5 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 6 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences168.2 Mya89.8 Mya170 Mya82 Mya

23 occurrences of Chytroeisphaeridia 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

23 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

5 formations

Hidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WBlisworth Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°W

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

Chytroeisphaeridia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Chytroeisphaeridia, 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

Each of the 23 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 content1

Picture of Chytroeisphaeridia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chytroeisphaeridia 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 itGonyaulacaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Downie et al. 1963