Palaeodasycladus

Palaeodasycladus

Julius von Pia (1887–1943) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 14 of 15 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 1 occurrence199–197 Mya — about 2 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 2 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 2 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192.9 Mya149.2 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

15 occurrences of Palaeodasycladus 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

15 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

Calcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 10.98°ECalcari Grigi — 45.58°N, 11.13°ERotzo — 45.98°N, 10.91°EAberdouz — 32.37°N, 4.55°WRobertson — 44.10°N, 119.50°W

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The named rock units Palaeodasycladus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeodasycladus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Palaeodasycladus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeodasycladus, 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

6 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Palaeodasycladus

Credit
Julius von Pia (1887–1943)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeodasycladus 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 itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pia 1927