Cyclonephelium

Cyclonephelium

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 142 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 94 of 142 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 42 of 142 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 142 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 142 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 14 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 19 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 20 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 13 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 5 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 5 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 8 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 16 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 14 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 2 occurrences87–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137.05 Mya66 Mya145 Mya54 Mya

142 occurrences of Cyclonephelium on record, most of them in the Early 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

142 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

12 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°ETalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WSix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WSanta Marta — 64.27°S, 57.30°WKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WWeald Clay — 51.15°N, 0.32°WPampa Rincón — 52.77°S, 68.70°W

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The named rock units Cyclonephelium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclonephelium and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cyclonephelium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

408 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Cyclonephelium, 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

14 references

Each of the 142 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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 Cyclonephelium

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAreoligeraceae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre and Cookson 1955