Ovoidites

No picture of Ovoidites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ovoidites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ZygnemataceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Algae

Time the record covers

At least 113 million years on record.

The record covers at least 141 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 123 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 37 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 123 occurrencesEocene — about 56 of 123 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 123 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 123 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–137 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences137–133 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 24 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 21 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 3 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 4 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 8 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 11 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 14 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 13 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 6 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences141 Mya27.3 Mya146 Mya21 Mya

123 occurrences of Ovoidites on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

123 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

16 formations

Fort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLa Colonia — 42.52°S, 66.84°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WLa Colonia — 43.02°S, 67.66°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WPuntudo Chico - La Colonia — 43.01°S, 66.47°WSix Hills — 25.00°N, 28.50°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°ELago Colhué Huapi — 45.62°S, 68.43°WJagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WHell Creek — 46.35°N, 103.87°WCerro Bororó — 43.67°S, 67.75°WAradeiba — 9.35°N, 29.13°EEifel — 50.10°N, 6.84°ERabekke — 55.05°N, 14.80°EBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°ELa Posa — 42.34°N, 0.57°EMalboro Clay — 38.17°N, 77.04°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°E

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The named rock units Ovoidites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 57 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovoidites and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ovoidites and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 114 sites for Ovoidites, 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

22 references

Each of the 123 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Ovoidites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ovoidites firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan of Ovoidites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itZygnemataceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krutzsch 1959