Argilloecia

Argilloecia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PontocyprididaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 233 million years on record.

The record covers at least 233.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 148 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 148 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 148 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 148 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 148 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 148 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 148 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 148 occurrencesEocene — about 30 of 148 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 148 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 148 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 148 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 148 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 15 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 15 occurrences56–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 11 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 19 occurrences32–24 Mya — about 16 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 16 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 27 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 19 occurrences233.6 Mya11.7 ka242 Mya0 Mya

148 occurrences of Argilloecia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

148 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

16 formations

Jagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WGliwice — 50.27°N, 18.67°ESanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WRoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.56°WAlazán — 21.07°N, 97.63°WAlazán — 21.20°N, 97.73°WAlazán — 21.10°N, 97.72°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.68°WAshley Mudstone — 44.80°S, 170.98°EBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.38°WBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.35°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WNariva — 10.32°N, 61.47°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EKincaid — 33.03°N, 95.98°WWills Point — 31.71°N, 96.49°WHuglu Tuffite — 36.92°N, 34.24°EBateque — 26.23°N, 112.38°WLa Colonia — 43.05°S, 69.05°W

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The named rock units Argilloecia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 79 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Argilloecia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Argilloecia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

766 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 120 sites for Argilloecia, 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

25 references

Each of the 148 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Argilloecia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itPontocyprididae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.