Palaeocystodinium golzowense

Palaeocystodinium golzowense

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 9 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 9 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya73 Mya6 Mya

9 occurrences of Palaeocystodinium golzowense on record. 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

9 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

5 formations

Jagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°WDiest — 51.22°N, 4.46°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WWaipara Greensand — 43.03°S, 172.53°EPiney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°W

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The named rock units Palaeocystodinium golzowense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

174 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palaeocystodinium golzowense, 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

5 references

Each of the 9 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

Media content1

Picture of Palaeocystodinium golzowense

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeocystodinium golzowense 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPalaeocystodinium through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Alberti 1961