Gorgansium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PantanelliinaePBDB
Time the record covers
At least 151 million years on record.
The record covers at least 237 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
199 occurrences of Gorgansium on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
199 occurrences- Middle Triassic1%
- Late Triassic16%
- Early Jurassic34%
- Middle Jurassic27%
- Late Jurassic19%
- Early Cretaceous3%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
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
29 formations
- Hocakoey Formation34
- Fields Creek Formation · Aldrich Mountains Group12
- Taman Formation11
- Ameghino Formation10
- Snowshoe Formation8
- Josephine Formation7
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The named rock units Gorgansium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gorgansium and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Gorgansium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
830 taxa- Paronaella34 sites
- Pantanellium30 sites
- Praeparvicingula29 sites
- Hsuum25 sites
- Napora23 sites
- Praeconocaryomma23 sites
- Pseudoeucyrtis22 sites
- Archaeodictyomitra20 sites
- Orbiculiforma19 sites
- Acanthocircus18 sites
- Farcus17 sites
- Parahsuum simplum17 sites
- Perispyridium17 sites
- Praehexasaturnalis tetraradiatus17 sites
- Syringocapsa17 sites
- Crucella16 sites
- Parvicingula16 sites
- Stichomitra16 sites
- Bistarkum15 sites
- Emiluvia15 sites
- Homoeoparonaella elegans15 sites
- Loopus primitivus15 sites
- Mirifusus15 sites
- Napora bukryi15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 119 sites for Gorgansium, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
42 references- Lower Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) radiolarians from the Antalya Nappes, Central Taurids, Southern Turkey34
- Faunal change of Early - Middle Jurassic radiolarians14
- Some characteristic radiolarians from Lower Jurassic bedded cherts of the Inuyama area, Southwest Japan14
- Early Middle Jurrasic (late Aalenian) radiolarian assemblage in a manganese nodule from the Northern Chichibu Belt in the Ino area, Kochi Prefecture, Southwest Japan12
- Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, east-central Oregon, USA12
- Late Jurassic radiolarians from the Antarctic Peninsula10
- Taxonomic studies of Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) Radiolaria from the Taman Formation, east-central Mexico8
- Upper Jurassic Tethyan and Southern Boreal radiolarians from western North America7
- Jurassic radiolaria from the Josephine ophiolite and overlying strata, Smith River subterrane (Klamath Mountains), northwestern California and southwestern Oreg7
- Upper Triassic and Jurassic Pantanelliinae from California, Oregon, and British Columbia7
- Biostratigraphy and Systematics of late Middle to Late Triassic Radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara Region, Turkey6
- Palökologische Verwertbarkeit oberjurassisch-unterkretazischer Radiolarienfaunen mit Beispielen aus Antarktis, Oman und Südalpen6
Each of the 199 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. 30 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
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No picture of Gorgansium 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 Gorgansium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gorgansium 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 itPantanelliinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pessagno and Blome 1980