Stephanopyxis simonseni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StephanopyxisPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
- Environment
- marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
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.
55 occurrences of Stephanopyxis simonseni on record, most of them in the Late 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
55 occurrences- Late Cretaceous71%
- Paleocene29%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Stephanopyxis simonseni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stephanopyxis simonseni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Stephanopyxis simonseni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
80 taxa- Stephanopyxis turris53 sites
- Trinacria53 sites
- Hemiaulus46 sites
- Pterotheca46 sites
- Pseudopyxilla39 sites
- Actinoptychus32 sites
- Goniothecium31 sites
- Acanthodiscus29 sites
- Triceratium29 sites
- Thalassiosiropsis27 sites
- Endictya25 sites
- Rhizosolenia25 sites
- Pyxidicula24 sites
- Sceptroneis24 sites
- Anaulus23 sites
- Paralia sulcata22 sites
- Stellarima22 sites
- Trochosiropsis22 sites
- Meristiosolen sp. 121 sites
- Radiolaria21 sites
- Aulacodiscus20 sites
- Bacillariophyceae20 sites
- Coscinodiscus20 sites
- Odontotropis18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 55 sites for Stephanopyxis simonseni, 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- Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy of Seymour Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula33
- Upper Cretaceous diatom biostratigraphy of the Arctic archipelago and northern continental margin, Canada22
Each of the 55 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
Media content0
No picture of Stephanopyxis simonseni 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 Stephanopyxis simonseni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStephanopyxis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hajos 1974