Palaeocystodinium lidiae
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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 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.
10 occurrences of Palaeocystodinium lidiae 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
10 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
2 formations
- Calafate Formation6
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group4
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The named rock units Palaeocystodinium lidiae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeocystodinium lidiae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Palaeocystodinium lidiae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Isabelidinium5 sites
- Manumiella complex5 sites
- Operculodinium radiculatum5 sites
- Apteodinium4 sites
- Dinoflagellata4 sites
- Disphaerogena carposphaeropsis4 sites
- Manumiella cretacea4 sites
- Palaeocystodinium golzowense4 sites
- Spiniferites4 sites
- Achomosphaera ramulifera3 sites
- Alterbidinium acutulum3 sites
- Areoligera3 sites
- Botryococcus3 sites
- Cerodinium cf. pannuceum3 sites
- Cordosphaeridium3 sites
- Deflandrea galeata3 sites
- Florentinia3 sites
- Operculodinium centrocarpum3 sites
- Palambages morulosa3 sites
- Pterospermella australiense3 sites
- Senegalinium bicavatum3 sites
- Spiniferites granulatus3 sites
- Tityrosphaeridium tenuistriatum3 sites
- ? Cleitosphaeridium cf. aciculare2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Palaeocystodinium lidiae, 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
2 references- Sedimentology and palynology of the Calafate Formation (Maastrichtian), Austral Basin, Southern Patagonia, Argentina6
- Late Maastrichtian dinoflagellate cysts from the Cerro Butaló section, southern Mendoza province, Argentina4
Each of the 10 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 Palaeocystodinium lidiae 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 Palaeocystodinium lidiae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeocystodinium lidiae 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 itPalaeocystodinium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Davey 1969