Pinnixa

A picture published with the record for Pinnixa. What it shows has not been checked.

Mary J. Rathbun · 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
PinnixinaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesMiocene — about 20 of 26 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 26 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

26 occurrences of Pinnixa on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

26 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

9 formations

Sandakan — 5.86°N, 118.04°ESandakan — 5.88°N, 118.06°EMonterey — 36.56°N, 121.87°WMiri — 4.81°N, 114.77°ENavidad — 33.95°S, 71.87°WMiri — 4.15°N, 113.85°EDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WMandog — 7.07°N, 125.57°ELacui — 42.70°S, 74.13°WEstancia 25 de Mayo — 50.51°S, 72.25°W

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The named rock units Pinnixa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pinnixa and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pinnixa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Pinnixa, 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

10 references

Each of the 26 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 Pinnixa

Credit
Mary J. Rathbun
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pinnixa 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1846