Paralia sulcata

Paralia sulcata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParaliaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Bacillariophyceae
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Bacillariophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 62 of 1113 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1113 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 1113 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 1113 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 153 of 1113 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 149 of 1113 occurrencesPleistocene — about 733 of 1113 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 15 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 15 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 15 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 11 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 23 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 39 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 45 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 138 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 762 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

1,113 occurrences of Paralia sulcata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

1,113 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

10 formations

Mason River — 69.46°N, 126.97°WKanguk — 79.00°N, 85.37°WKanguk — 78.00°N, 103.00°WSmoking Hills — 69.46°N, 126.97°WFormación Coquimbo — 29.08°S, 71.46°WFormación Coquimbo — 30.32°S, 71.52°WEmbetsu — 44.35°N, 141.73°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WDaineji — 37.37°N, 141.04°EChoptank — 38.44°N, 76.44°WKylan — 59.92°N, 164.78°EChepotsunai — 44.32°N, 141.67°E

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The named rock units Paralia sulcata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1,043 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paralia sulcata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Paralia sulcata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,113 sites for Paralia sulcata, and this reads 240 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

59 references

Each of the 1,113 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. 47 further references are not listed. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Paralia sulcata

Credit
Jmpost
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paralia sulcata 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 itParalia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ehrenberg 1838)