Gephyrocapsa

Gephyrocapsa is a genus of haptophytes.

Gephyrocapsa

Photo by NEON ja , colored by Richard Bartz · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
NoelaerhabdaceaePBDB
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 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 8768 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 21 of 8768 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 8768 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 42 of 8768 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 8768 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 31 of 8768 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 462 of 8768 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8137 of 8768 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 14 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 14 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 219 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 8450 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

8,768 occurrences of Gephyrocapsa 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

8,768 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

Argille Subappennine — 40.61°N, 16.53°E

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The named rock units Gephyrocapsa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8,767 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gephyrocapsa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Gephyrocapsa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

67 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 802 sites for Gephyrocapsa, 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

123 references

Each of the 8,768 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. 111 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Gephyrocapsa

Credit
Photo by NEON ja , colored by Richard Bartz
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itNoelaerhabdaceae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kamptner 1943