Cladococcus
Cladococcus is a genus of radiolarians.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstrosphaeridaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 61 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Cladococcus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
9 occurrences- Paleocene11%
- Miocene50%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene22%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cladococcus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cladococcus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cladococcus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Didymocyrtis7 sites
- Phormostichoartus6 sites
- Spongaster6 sites
- Stichocorys6 sites
- Calocycletta3 sites
- Lychnodictyum3 sites
- Trisolenia3 sites
- Acrobotrys2 sites
- Anthocyrtidium2 sites
- Artostobium2 sites
- Diartus2 sites
- Nephrospyris2 sites
- Pterocanium2 sites
- Spongodiscus2 sites
- Spongurus2 sites
- Stylodictya2 sites
- Theocorythium2 sites
- Acanthocircus1 site
- Actinomma boreale1 site
- Actinomma leptodermum1 site
- Actinomminae1 site
- Amphipternis1 site
- Amphipyndax stocki1 site
- Amphisphaera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cladococcus, 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
3 references- Site U13356
- Middle to Late Pleistocene radiolarian biostratigraphy in the water-mixed region of the Kuroshio and Oyashio currents, northeastern margin of Japan (JAMSTEC Hole 902-C9001C)2
- Stratigraphic, paleontological and geochemical data from Upper Cretaceous and Lower Paleocene strata in southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand1
Each of the 9 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 Cladococcus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- tintinnidguy
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cladococcus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAstrosphaeridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mueller 1856