Eiffellithus

Searched as Eiffellithus turriseiffeli. The Paleobiology Database treats Eiffellithus as the accepted name.

Eiffellithus

Thomas Ehrendorfer · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EiffellithaceaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 13 occurrencesPaleocene95–93 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89.8 Mya66 Mya94.5 Mya61 Mya

13 occurrences of Eiffellithus 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

13 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

2 formations

Jagüel — 38.10°S, 68.38°WSecond White Specks — 49.50°N, 112.17°W

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The named rock units Eiffellithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Eiffellithus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Eiffellithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

545 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 226 sites for Eiffellithus, 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

2 references

Each of the 13 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

Media content1

Picture of Eiffellithus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Thomas Ehrendorfer
Licence
CC0
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 itEiffellithaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reinhardt 1965