Diconodinium pusillum
No picture of Diconodinium pusillum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Diconodinium pusillum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiconodiniumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Diconodinium pusillum 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Kotick Point Formation1
- Santa Marta Formation1
- Whisky Bay Formation · Gustav Group1
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The named rock units Diconodinium pusillum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Alisporites grandis1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Ascodinium ovale1 site
- Baculatisporites comaumensis1 site
- Balmeiopsis limbatus1 site
- Callialasporites trilobatus1 site
- Classopollis1 site
- Classopollis chateaunovii1 site
- Clavatipollenites hughesii1 site
- Cleistosphaeridium ancoriferum1 site
- Cleistosphaeridium armatum1 site
- Coronifera striolata1 site
- Cribroperidinium edwardsii1 site
- Cyatheacidites annulatus1 site
- Cyatheacidites archangelskii1 site
- Cyathidites australis1 site
- Cycadopites nitidus1 site
- Cyclonephelium compactum1 site
- Foraminisporis dailyi1 site
- Foveogleicheniidites confossus1 site
- Gleicheniidites circinidites1 site
- Herkosporites elliottii1 site
- Heterosphaeridium heteracanthum1 site
- Ischyosporites volkheimeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Diconodinium pusillum, 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- Cretaceous palynomorphs from the James Ross Island area, Antarctica - A pilot Study3
- Aptian to Coniacian (Early–Late Cretaceous) palynostratigraphy of the Gustav Group, James Ross Basin, Antarctica1
- Palynology of the Lachman Crags Member, Santa Marta Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of north-west James Ross Island1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Diconodinium pusillum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Diconodinium pusillum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Diconodinium pusillum 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.
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What may have been alongside itDiconodinium through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Singh 1971