Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus

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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 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 8 of 22 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 14 of 22 occurrencesLate Triassic244–243 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence226–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence224–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–222 Mya — about 1 occurrence222–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–218 Mya — about 1 occurrence218–217 Mya — about 1 occurrence217–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–215 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239.48 Mya215.38 Mya244.1 Mya210.5 Mya

22 occurrences of Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus on record, most of them in the Late 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

22 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

3 formations

Gokdere — 36.58°N, 30.43°EPhasoula — 34.97°N, 32.33°EPhasoula — 34.73°N, 33.15°EBuchenstein — 45.75°N, 11.33°E

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The named rock units Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

293 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus, 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 22 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 tetracanthus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 tetracanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pentactinocarpus tetracanthus 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 Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumitrica 1978