Tectatodinium

No picture of Tectatodinium 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 Tectatodinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 7 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66 Mya5.333 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

7 occurrences of Tectatodinium 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

7 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

5 formations

Calvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EPiney Point — 37.60°N, 77.09°WKasterlee — 51.34°N, 4.91°ECalafate — 50.38°S, 72.20°W

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The named rock units Tectatodinium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tectatodinium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Tectatodinium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

533 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Tectatodinium, 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

7 references

Each of the 7 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 Tectatodinium 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 Tectatodinium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tectatodinium 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 itPeridiniales through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wall 1967