Pycnoporidium

Pycnoporidium is thought to be a genus of red or green alga; one species has been synonymized with the brachiopod Gosaukammerella, leaving the interpretation of the other species uncertain.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SolenoporaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhodophyceae
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,marinePBDB, for Rhodophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 210 million years on record.

The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 48 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 48 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 48 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 48 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 48 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 22 of 48 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 48 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–232 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–208 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences208–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 3 occurrences153–146 Mya — about 3 occurrences146–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–106 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences106–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–83 Mya — about 4 occurrences83–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–67 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 10 occurrences59–51 Mya — about 13 occurrences51–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266.9 Mya56 Mya279 Mya44 Mya

48 occurrences of Pycnoporidium on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

48 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

14 formations

Sinjar — 35.10°N, 45.59°ESinjar — 37.18°N, 43.22°ESinjar — 35.35°N, 45.42°EAvella — 42.17°N, 14.17°EKorallenoolith — 52.18°N, 9.38°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°ENeoschwagerina Beds — 46.37°N, 14.11°E"Pantokrator limestone" — 37.33°N, 23.47°EPandan — 10.40°N, 123.88°EDachstein — 47.45°N, 13.69°ERiachuelo — 10.81°S, 37.24°WPonta do Mel — 4.87°S, 36.50°WTaft — 31.62°N, 53.81°EKambuhel Limestone — 48.57°N, 17.39°ERasov — 48.80°N, 17.73°EHradisko — 49.22°N, 18.62°E

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The named rock units Pycnoporidium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnoporidium and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Pycnoporidium and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

552 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 39 sites for Pycnoporidium, 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

29 references

Each of the 48 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. 17 further references are not listed. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yabe and Toyama 1928