Pterocodon
No picture of Pterocodon 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 Pterocodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TheocotylidaePBDB
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Pterocodon on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
16 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pterocodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pterocodon and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pterocodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Lamptonium pennatum10 sites
- Calocycloma9 sites
- Lamptonium9 sites
- Podocyrtis (Lampterium) sinuosa9 sites
- Spongatractus pachystylus9 sites
- Spongosphaera9 sites
- Theocotylissa ficus9 sites
- Lychnocanoma8 sites
- Lychnocanoma babylonis8 sites
- Phormocyrtis8 sites
- Phormocyrtis striata8 sites
- Theocorys anaclasta8 sites
- Theocotyle8 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) hirsuta8 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) robusta8 sites
- Zealithapium8 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) papalis5 sites
- Bekoma bidartensis4 sites
- Buryella clinata4 sites
- Buryella tetradica4 sites
- Radiolaria4 sites
- Amphisphaera3 sites
- Lychnocanoma auxilla3 sites
- Periphaena delta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pterocodon, 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
3 references- Site U13319
- Biostratigraphy of Late Paleocene- Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus4
- Site U14073
Each of the 16 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 Pterocodon 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 Pterocodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pterocodon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTheocotylidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1847