Spiniferella cornuta
No picture of Spiniferella cornuta 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 Spiniferella cornuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpiniferellaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Dinophyceae
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Spiniferella cornuta on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Spiniferella cornuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spiniferella cornuta and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Spiniferella cornuta and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Cymatiosphaera2 sites
- Nummus similis2 sites
- Ovoidites2 sites
- Paralecaniela sp.2 sites
- Proxapertites2 sites
- Pterospermella2 sites
- Pterospermella australiensis2 sites
- Senoniasphaera inornata2 sites
- Achomosphaera1 site
- Batiacasphaera1 site
- Cerebrocysta1 site
- cf. Muratodinium fimbriatum1 site
- Cycadopites1 site
- Impagidinium1 site
- Kallosphaeridium1 site
- Lancettopsis1 site
- Lecaniella1 site
- Leiosphaeridia1 site
- Liliacidites1 site
- Liliacidites variegatus1 site
- Longapertites1 site
- Longapertites andreisii1 site
- Manumilela rotunda1 site
- Paralecaniela indentata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Spiniferella cornuta, 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 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Spiniferella cornuta 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 Spiniferella cornuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spiniferella cornuta was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSpiniferella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gerlach 1961