Pentactinocarpus fusiformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PentactinocarpusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Life habit
- planktonicPBDB, for Radiolaria
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Radiolaria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Radiolaria
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya.
9 occurrences of Pentactinocarpus fusiformis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
9 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pentactinocarpus fusiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pentactinocarpus fusiformis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Pentactinocarpus fusiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Hozmadia reticulata6 sites
- Eptingium manfredi5 sites
- Oertlispongus inaequispinosus5 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera japonica5 sites
- Stauracontium5 sites
- Cryptostephanidium cornigerum4 sites
- Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus4 sites
- Pentaspongodiscus symmetricus4 sites
- Plafkerium4 sites
- Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa4 sites
- Spongopallium contortum4 sites
- Spongosilicarmiger italicus4 sites
- Tiborella magnidentata4 sites
- Triassocampe4 sites
- Yeharaia4 sites
- Yeharaia elegans4 sites
- Archaeosemantis pterostephanus3 sites
- Beturiella robusta3 sites
- Cryptostephanidium japonicum3 sites
- Eonapora3 sites
- Falcispongus calcaneum3 sites
- Gomberellus hircicornus3 sites
- Hinedorcus alatus3 sites
- Nofrema trispinosa3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pentactinocarpus fusiformis, 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
5 references- Middle Triassic radiolarians from Slovenia (Yugoslavia)3
- РАДИОЛЯРИИ и НИЖНЕМЕЗОЗОЙСКИЕ ТОЛЩИ ВОСТОКА СССР [Radiolarians and Lower Mesozoic Thickness East USSR]2
- Taxonomic studies of Triassic radiolaria from Busuanga Island, Philippines2
- Triassic mid-oceanic sedimentation in Panthalassa Ocean: Sambosan accretionary complex, Japan1
- Contribution to the radiolarian fauna of the Middle Triassic of the southern Alps1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Pentactinocarpus fusiformis 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 Pentactinocarpus fusiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pentactinocarpus fusiformis 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.
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What may have been alongside itPentactinocarpus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica 1978