Sphenolithus

No picture of Sphenolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Sphenolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CoccolithophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 8028 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 18 of 8028 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 109 of 8028 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1388 of 8028 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1610 of 8028 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3637 of 8028 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 864 of 8028 occurrencesPleistocene — about 401 of 8028 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 4 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 16 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 63 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 68 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 130 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 121 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 240 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 269 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 267 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 282 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 496 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 447 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 561 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 637 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 614 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 574 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 635 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 851 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 1129 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 607 occurrences93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

8,028 occurrences of Sphenolithus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

8,028 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

16 formations

Map — 9.55°N, 138.15°EMap — 9.56°N, 138.20°EButano — 37.42°N, 122.20°WButano — 37.34°N, 122.21°WButano — 37.27°N, 122.29°WKuma — 44.74°N, 33.88°EBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WShihmen — 23.91°N, 121.05°EBorbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EBolago Marl — 46.05°N, 11.93°EEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WKivinje — 10.02°S, 39.68°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WNovopavlovka — 44.74°N, 33.88°EItahashi — 34.86°N, 133.00°ELithothamnion limestone — 45.19°N, 16.37°ECastle Hayne — 34.37°N, 77.84°W

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The named rock units Sphenolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7,968 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenolithus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sphenolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

753 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 1,017 sites for Sphenolithus, and this reads 240 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

123 references

Each of the 8,028 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. 111 further references are not listed. 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Sphenolithus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Sphenolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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What may have been alongside itCoccolithophyceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1952