Florentinia

Florentinia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GonyaulacaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 11 of 97 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 86 of 97 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 97 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 15 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 28 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 28 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 10 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya134 Mya65 Mya

97 occurrences of Florentinia 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

97 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

7 formations

Bahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAbu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EJagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°WAgrio — 38.42°S, 70.00°WRiachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°W

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The named rock units Florentinia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 62 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Florentinia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Florentinia, 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

7 references

Each of the 97 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. 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 content1

Picture of Florentinia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Florentinia 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itGonyaulacaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davey and Verdier 1973