Spongodinium delitiense
No picture of Spongodinium delitiense 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 Spongodinium delitiense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpongodiniumPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dinoflagellata
- Environment
- lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dinoflagellata
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.
8 occurrences of Spongodinium delitiense on record. 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 occurrences- Late Cretaceous13%
- Paleocene88%
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
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The named rock units Spongodinium delitiense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Chatangiella8 sites
- <small peridinioid forms>7 sites
- Cyclonephelium6 sites
- Odontochitina costata6 sites
- Pediastrum6 sites
- Spinidinium6 sites
- Cordosphaeridium2 sites
- Spiniferites2 sites
- Alisogymnium1 site
- Alterbidinium minus1 site
- Betula1 site
- Bombacacidites1 site
- Chamydophorella nyei1 site
- Choanopollenites1 site
- Classopollis1 site
- Deflandrea1 site
- Dinogymnium1 site
- Dorocysta litotes1 site
- Fibrocysta1 site
- Fromea1 site
- Fromea fragilis1 site
- Hesperornis1 site
- Heterosphaeridium1 site
- Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Spongodinium delitiense, 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
2 references- Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of lower Paleozoic, upper Cretaceous, and lower Tertiary rocks in U.S. Geological Survey New Madrid test wells, Southeastern Missouri7
- Hesperornis (Aves) from Ellesmere Island and palynological correlation of known Canadian localities1
Each of the 8 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. 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
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No picture of Spongodinium delitiense 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 Spongodinium delitiense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spongodinium delitiense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itSpongodinium through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1936