Eucampia

Eucampia is a genus of marine centric diatoms. It was first described by Ehrenberg in 1839.

Eucampia

Alexandra Kraberg (alexandra at planktonnet.awi.de) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
HemiaulaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 324 occurrencesMiocene — about 155 of 324 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 74 of 324 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 88 of 324 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 10 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 10 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 18 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 21 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 22 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 22 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 22 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 22 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

324 occurrences of Eucampia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

324 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

1 formation

Choptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°W

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The named rock units Eucampia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 323 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucampia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eucampia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 311 sites for Eucampia, and this reads 240 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 324 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. 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 Eucampia

Credit
Alexandra Kraberg (alexandra at planktonnet.awi.de)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eucampia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHemiaulaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1839