Euglena
No picture of Euglena was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Euglena itself, so it was not used. 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 Euglena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChlorophyceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlorophyta
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Chlorophyta
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Euglena 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Euglena has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Euglena and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Euglena and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Botryococcus braunii1 site
- Fungi1 site
- Globosasclerotes aegiranus1 site
- Hexacolpites1 site
- Microthyriacites cooksonii1 site
- Microthyriacites sahnii1 site
- Monocolpites1 site
- Oedogoniites palanensis1 site
- Pentacolporites indet.1 site
- Pentaorites indet.1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Sclerotites1 site
- Sclerotites brandonianus1 site
- Synechocystis aquatilis1 site
- Tetracolpites1 site
- Tricolpites1 site
- Triletes1 site
- Triorites1 site
- Ulothrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Euglena, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Euglena was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Euglena itself, so it was not used.
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 Euglena, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Euglena was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itChlorophyceae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg