Cricolithus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrymnesiophycidaePBDB
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 91 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 42 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 42 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiocene — about 5 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 42 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences93.9 Mya2.58 Mya115 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Cricolithus on record. 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

42 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 the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Cricolithus, 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 42 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 Cricolithus 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 Cricolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cricolithus 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 itPrymnesiophycidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1963