Girgisia

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrinsiaceaePBDB
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 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 52.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 93 occurrencesEocene — about 90 of 93 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 93 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 93 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 93 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 93 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 15 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 17 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 10 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 7 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 8 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 8 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences52.3 Mya2.58 Mya60 Mya0 Mya

93 occurrences of Girgisia 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

93 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.

Girgisia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Girgisia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Girgisia, 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

12 references

Each of the 93 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 Girgisia 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 Girgisia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Girgisia 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 itPrinsiaceae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Varol 1989