Pycnolepas rigida

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnolepasPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cirripedia
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cirripedia
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Cirripedia
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Cirripedia

Time the record covers

At least 3.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 26 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 26 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–101 Mya — about 1 occurrence101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence110.1 Mya106.3 Mya113.7 Mya100 Mya

26 occurrences of Pycnolepas rigida on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 formations

Gault — 51.08°N, 1.18°EGault — 51.30°N, 0.33°EGault — 51.29°N, 0.20°EGault — 50.90°N, 0.28°WGault — 51.12°N, 1.14°EGault — 51.16°N, 0.93°EGault — 51.94°N, 0.64°WGault — 51.31°N, 0.48°EMunday’s Hill Phosphatic Sandstone — 51.92°N, 0.67°W

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The named rock units Pycnolepas rigida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnolepas rigida and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pycnolepas rigida and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 26 sites for Pycnolepas rigida, 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

4 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 content0

No picture of Pycnolepas rigida 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 Pycnolepas rigida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pycnolepas rigida 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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What may have been alongside itPycnolepas through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1836)