Operculodinium centrocarpum

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 145 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 145 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 145 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 145 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 145 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 145 occurrencesPleistocene — about 113 of 145 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 112 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

145 occurrences of Operculodinium centrocarpum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

145 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

8 formations

Monte León — 50.16°S, 68.41°WMonte León — 50.13°S, 68.40°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WCalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EKasterlee — 51.34°N, 4.91°EBlue Clay — 40.47°N, 17.30°ESagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°WJagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°W

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The named rock units Operculodinium centrocarpum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 129 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Operculodinium centrocarpum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Operculodinium centrocarpum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

431 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Operculodinium centrocarpum, 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

20 references

Each of the 145 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. 8 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

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No picture of Operculodinium centrocarpum 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 Operculodinium centrocarpum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Operculodinium centrocarpum 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 itOperculodinium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wall 1967