Markalius neuquenensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarkaliusPBDB
- 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 most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Markalius neuquenensis 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Markalius neuquenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Markalius neuquenensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Markalius neuquenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aleisocythereis polikothonus2 sites
- Argilloecia abnormalis2 sites
- Cythereis incerta2 sites
- Hysterocythereis attenuata2 sites
- Keijia flexuosa2 sites
- Petalocythereis venusta2 sites
- Veenia (Nigeria) punctata2 sites
- Apatoleberis noviprinceps1 site
- Argilloecia concludus1 site
- Castillocythereis albertoriccardii1 site
- Cythereis rionegrensis1 site
- Eucytherura stibaros1 site
- Mimicocythereis attilai1 site
- Munseyella costaevermiculatus1 site
- Orthrocosta phantasia1 site
- Paramunseyella epaphroditus1 site
- Sthenarocythereis erymnos1 site
- Veenia tumida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Markalius neuquenensis, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Markalius neuquenensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Markalius neuquenensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Markalius neuquenensis 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 itMarkalius through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guerra and Concheyro 2023