Eiffellithus gorkae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EiffellithusPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
26 occurrences of Eiffellithus gorkae on record, most of them in the Late 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
26 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
5 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group20
- Pedro Luro Formation2
- Avezac Formation1
- La Colonia Formation1
- Colorado Formation1
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The named rock units Eiffellithus gorkae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eiffellithus gorkae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eiffellithus gorkae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis23 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii19 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus18 sites
- Placozygus spiralis17 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri17 sites
- Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii16 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata15 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae15 sites
- Rhagodiscus angustus14 sites
- Micula concava13 sites
- Micula staurophora13 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea13 sites
- Acuturris scotus12 sites
- Cervisiella operculata12 sites
- Markalius inversus12 sites
- Micula cubiformis11 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae11 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus9 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum9 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum9 sites
- Micula decussata9 sites
- Micula murus9 sites
- Placozygus sigmoides9 sites
- Biscutum constans8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Eiffellithus gorkae, 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
7 references- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin10
- A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina7
- Calcareous nannofossil events in the late cretaceous at Pedro Luro borehole, Colorado basin, Argentina3
- High stress late Maastrichtian - early Danian palaeoenvironment in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina3
- A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina1
- Site U13741
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)1
Each of the 26 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.
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No picture of Eiffellithus gorkae 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 Eiffellithus gorkae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eiffellithus gorkae 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 itEiffellithus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reinhardt 1965