Sphenolithus abies

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphenolithusPBDB
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 1845 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 1845 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1845 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 1845 occurrencesOligocene — about 21 of 1845 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1260 of 1845 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 445 of 1845 occurrencesPleistocene — about 115 of 1845 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 14 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 46 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 97 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 134 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 297 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 451 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 585 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 215 occurrences93.9 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

1,845 occurrences of Sphenolithus abies on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,845 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

4 formations

Borbon — 1.00°N, 79.75°WEsmeraldas — 1.00°N, 79.75°WMikindani — 10.26°S, 40.19°EFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°W

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The named rock units Sphenolithus abies has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,840 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenolithus abies and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sphenolithus abies and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

215 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,842 sites for Sphenolithus abies, 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

72 references

Each of the 1,845 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. 60 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 abies was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Sphenolithus abies, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

MorphoSource 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 itSphenolithus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deflandre 1954