Zygolithus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrymnesiophycidaePBDB
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 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEocene134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121.4 Mya41.03 Mya134 Mya36 Mya

3 occurrences of Zygolithus 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

3 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

2 formations

Blue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WAvezac — 43.67°N, 1.11°W

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The named rock units Zygolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Zygolithus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Zygolithus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Zygolithus 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 Zygolithus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Zygolithus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPrymnesiophycidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kampter ex Matthes 1956 1956