Eunotia

Eunotia is a genus of diatoms. They are fresh water diatoms, specifically common in lakes, and they are also common in fossil records, although their siliceous wall design may have been lost and they appear plane, an example is Eunotia tetradon.

Eunotia

Kristian Peters http://www.korseby.net/outer/flora/algae/index.html · 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
EunotiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 39 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 26 occurrences5.333 Mya – 129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Eunotia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

39 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

Latah — 47.56°N, 117.22°W

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The named rock units Eunotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eunotia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Eunotia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

200 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Eunotia, 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

9 references

Each of the 39 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 Eunotia

Credit
Kristian Peters http://www.korseby.net/outer/flora/algae/index.html
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eunotia 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 itEunotiaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1837