Quinquecuspis

A picture published with the record for Quinquecuspis. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 780 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 35 of 36 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 36 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.58 Mya – 1.8 Mya12.1 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Quinquecuspis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

36 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

1 formation

Kasterlee — 51.34°N, 4.91°E

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The named rock units Quinquecuspis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Quinquecuspis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Quinquecuspis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Quinquecuspis, 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

7 references

Each of the 36 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 Quinquecuspis

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harland 1977