Ellipsolithus

Searched as Ellipsolithus macellus. The Paleobiology Database treats Ellipsolithus as the accepted name.

No picture of Ellipsolithus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Ellipsolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoccolithophyceaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 55 occurrencesPaleocene — about 29 of 55 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 26 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

55 occurrences of Ellipsolithus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

55 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

3 formations

Dakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EWilliamsburg — 33.40°N, 79.93°WKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°E

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The named rock units Ellipsolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ellipsolithus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Ellipsolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

116 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Ellipsolithus, 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

13 references

Each of the 55 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. 1 further reference is 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 content0

No picture of Ellipsolithus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Ellipsolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ellipsolithus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itCoccolithophyceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sullivan 1964