Spiniferites

Spiniferites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 131 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 211 of 387 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 95 of 387 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 387 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 387 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 387 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 387 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 387 occurrencesPleistocene — about 27 of 387 occurrences140–135 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences135–130 Mya — about 2 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–116 Mya — about 64 occurrences116–112 Mya — about 93 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 38 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 6 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 20 occurrences98–93 Mya — about 26 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 9 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 13 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 14 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 4 occurrences61–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences33–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–9.3 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.3–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences132.6 Mya774 ka140 Mya0 Mya

387 occurrences of Spiniferites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

387 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

37 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WApollonian — 4.98°N, 3.02°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WSanta Marta — 64.21°S, 57.18°WLópez de Bertodano — 63.99°S, 57.43°WAlta Vista — 50.49°S, 72.58°WJagüel — 35.84°S, 69.67°WMonte León — 47.09°S, 66.01°WMonte León — 47.08°S, 66.39°WWhisky Bay — 63.86°S, 58.05°WWhisky Bay — 63.83°S, 58.13°WHidden Lake — 63.87°S, 57.99°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WCalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°WSagavanirktok — 69.79°N, 148.64°WLa Boca — 9.07°N, 79.67°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.00°ESix Hills — 25.50°N, 29.25°EKotick Point — 64.00°S, 58.36°WKotick Point — 64.01°S, 58.35°WPorters Creek — 36.42°N, 89.56°WClayton — 36.42°N, 89.56°WBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°EAreniscas de el Limbo — 4.90°N, 73.02°WSobral? — 64.25°S, 56.72°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WDiest — 51.22°N, 4.46°E

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The named rock units Spiniferites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spiniferites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Spiniferites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,428 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 151 sites for Spiniferites, 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

49 references

Each of the 387 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. 37 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Spiniferites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spiniferites 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 itGonyaulacoideae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mantell 1850