Pygopistes parrasae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PygopistesPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pygopistes parrasae 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pygopistes parrasae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pygopistes parrasae and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pygopistes parrasae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Eutrephoceras2 sites
- Foraminifera2 sites
- Hercoglossa romeroi2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Lobonotus lobulata2 sites
- Odontogryphaea2 sites
- Paraster joannisboehmi2 sites
- Schizaster2 sites
- Selachia indet.2 sites
- Thalassinoides2 sites
- Turritella malaspina2 sites
- Xanthilites gerthi2 sites
- Aphrodina1 site
- Archaeogeryon lophos1 site
- Biantholithus1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Chirinocarcinus wichmanni1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Cimomia camachoi1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Costacopluma australis1 site
- Ctenocheles1 site
- Diplodetis nutrix1 site
- Diplodetus nutrix1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pygopistes parrasae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pygopistes parrasae 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 Pygopistes parrasae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pygopistes parrasae 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 itPygopistes through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Parma and Casadío 2005