Ovoidites parvus

No picture of Ovoidites parvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ovoidites parvus 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 137.05 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 16 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 16 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences137.05 Mya72.2 Mya145 Mya64 Mya

16 occurrences of Ovoidites parvus 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

16 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

6 formations

Puntudo 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°EAradeiba — 9.35°N, 29.13°EBaraka — 9.35°N, 29.13°ELa Posa — 42.34°N, 0.57°ELago Colhué Huapi — 45.63°S, 68.44°W

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The named rock units Ovoidites parvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ovoidites parvus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Ovoidites parvus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Ovoidites parvus, 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

6 references

Each of the 16 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 Ovoidites parvus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Ovoidites parvus 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.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Ovoidites parvus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itOvoidites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nakoman 1966