Skeletonema

Skeletonema is a genus of centric diatoms in the family Skeletonemataceae. It is the type genus of its family.

Skeletonema

Minami Himemiya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
SkeletonemaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 13 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 13 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 13 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.2 Mya55.4 Mya

13 occurrences of Skeletonema on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

13 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

2 formations

Sobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°W

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

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Skeletonema, 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

1 reference

Each of the 13 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 Skeletonema

Credit
Minami Himemiya
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Greville 1865