Crepidolithus

No picture of Crepidolithus 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 Crepidolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChiastozygaceaePBDB
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 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 159 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 157.9 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 181 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 179 of 181 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 181 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 1 of 181 occurrencesLate Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences195–193 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 4 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 4 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 4 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 4 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 4 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 15 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 24 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 25 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 27 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 27 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 27 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 8 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199.5 Mya159 Mya202.3 Mya157 Mya

181 occurrences of Crepidolithus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

181 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

Subbetic Basin — 37.70°N, 3.63°WSubbetic Basin — 38.13°N, 1.47°WSubbetic Basin — 37.60°N, 3.21°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EEffinger Schichten — 47.26°N, 7.52°EFernie — 55.78°N, 117.91°WDalichai — 37.60°N, 3.21°W

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The named rock units Crepidolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Crepidolithus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Crepidolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Crepidolithus, 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 181 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 Crepidolithus 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 Crepidolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Crepidolithus 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 itChiastozygaceae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noël 1965