Palaega goedertorum

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaegaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Malacostraca
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Malacostraca
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocene38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33.9 Mya23.04 Mya38.2 Mya15.5 Mya

11 occurrences of Palaega goedertorum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

11 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

4 formations

Makah — 48.32°N, 124.50°WMakah — 48.32°N, 124.45°WMakah — 48.16°N, 123.79°WPysht — 48.18°N, 124.05°WPysht — 48.15°N, 123.86°WAstoria — 47.27°N, 123.52°WHoko River — 48.39°N, 124.66°W

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The named rock units Palaega goedertorum 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.

Palaega goedertorum and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Palaega goedertorum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Palaega goedertorum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 11 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 Palaega goedertorum 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 Palaega goedertorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaega goedertorum 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.

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What may have been alongside itPalaega through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wieder and Feldmann 1989