Distephanus boliviensis
No picture of Distephanus boliviensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Distephanus boliviensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StephanochaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chrysophyceae
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Chrysophyceae
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Chrysophyceae
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 774 ka.
10 occurrences of Distephanus boliviensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
10 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene80%
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.
Distephanus boliviensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Distephanus boliviensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Distephanus speculum8 sites
- Stephanocha7 sites
- Dictyochaceae2 sites
- Dictyocha1 site
- Distephanus crux1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Distephanus boliviensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 referencesEach of the 10 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Distephanus boliviensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Distephanus boliviensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Distephanus boliviensis 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 itStephanocha through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frenguelli 1940)