Phoberocysta

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132.6 Mya83.6 Mya138 Mya71 Mya

8 occurrences of Phoberocysta 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

8 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

3 formations

Abu Roash — 30.00°N, 28.00°EBahariya — 30.00°N, 28.00°EAgrio — 38.42°S, 70.00°W

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The named rock units Phoberocysta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phoberocysta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Phoberocysta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Phoberocysta, 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 8 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. 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Phoberocysta 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itCeratiaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Millioud 1969