Puriana
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OstracodaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 54 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.
25 occurrences of Puriana on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
25 occurrences- Paleocene16%
- Oligocene16%
- Miocene40%
- Pliocene16%
- Pleistocene12%
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
11 formations
- La Rosa Formation6
- Yorktown Formation · Chesapeake Group4
- Bermont Formation2
- San Sebastián Formation2
- Caloosahatchee Formation1
- Tubará Formation1
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The named rock units Puriana 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.
Puriana and its relatives
MioceneWhere Puriana and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
761 taxa- Cytherella15 sites
- Loxoconcha10 sites
- Bairdia9 sites
- Cativella9 sites
- Basslerites8 sites
- Cythereis7 sites
- Favella rugipunctata6 sites
- Paracypris6 sites
- Xestoleberis6 sites
- Aurila5 sites
- Cythereis exanthemata gomillionensis5 sites
- Cytheromorpha warneri5 sites
- Cytherura5 sites
- Platella5 sites
- Propontocypris5 sites
- Anomocytheridea4 sites
- Cytherelloidea4 sites
- Cytheropteron4 sites
- Hermanites4 sites
- Loxoconcha reticularis4 sites
- Pterygocythereis4 sites
- Acuticythereis3 sites
- Angulogerina occidentalis3 sites
- Bolivina3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Puriana, 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
9 references- Miocene Ostracoda from Venezuela6
- Age and correlation of the Yorktown (Pliocene) and Croatan (Pliocene and Pleistocene) formations at the Lee Creek Mine4
- Middle Tertiary Ostracoda from northwestern Puerto Rico4
- Ostracoda from the Paleocene of Trinidad4
- Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Charlotte Harbor Area in Southwestern Florida3
- Upper Miocene Ostracoda from the Tubará Formation (northern Colombia)1
- Ostracoda from the Antigua Formation (Oligocene, Lesser Antilles)1
- Ostracoda of the Brasso Formation of Trinidad1
- A Gatun ostracode fauna from Cativa, Panama1
Each of the 25 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 Puriana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Puriana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOstracoda through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Coryell and Fields 1953