Transversopontis
No picture of Transversopontis 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 Transversopontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoccolithophyceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.
9 occurrences of Transversopontis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
9 occurrences- Eocene67%
- Oligocene22%
- Pleistocene11%
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 Transversopontis 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.
Transversopontis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Transversopontis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
388 taxa- Coccolithus pelagicus7 sites
- Reticulofenestra7 sites
- Pontosphaera6 sites
- Sphenolithus moriformis6 sites
- Coccolithus5 sites
- Discoaster5 sites
- Helicosphaera5 sites
- Coccolithus formosus4 sites
- Cruciplacolithus4 sites
- Helicosphaera lophota4 sites
- Micrantholithus4 sites
- Pontosphaera multipora4 sites
- Reticulofenestra dictyoda4 sites
- Reticulofenestra umbilicus4 sites
- Rhabdosphaera4 sites
- Sphenolithus4 sites
- ? Towelus gammation3 sites
- Chlasmolithus consuetus3 sites
- Chlasmolithus eograndis3 sites
- Chlasmolithus grandis3 sites
- Chlasmolithus solitus3 sites
- Cruciplacolithus staurion3 sites
- Cuclococcolithus pseudogammation3 sites
- Dictyococcites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Transversopontis, 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
6 references- Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Botano Sandstone, Santa Cruz Mountains, California3
- The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe2
- Site U13531
- A new middle Eocene protocetid whale (Mammalia: Cetacea: Archaeoceti) and associated biota from Georgia1
- A lower Eocene shell bed and some Quaternary mollusks from ODP Leg 112 off Peru1
- Age of the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina1
Each of the 9 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
Media content0
No picture of Transversopontis 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 Transversopontis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Transversopontis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoccolithophyceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hay et al. 1966