Pyrgopolon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerpulidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulidae
Time the record covers
At least 198 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 59.24 Mya.
12 occurrences of Pyrgopolon on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
12 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Pyrgopolon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pyrgopolon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pyrgopolon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
288 taxa- Filograna3 sites
- Terebratulina chrysalis3 sites
- Acutostrea2 sites
- Anomiidae2 sites
- Asteroids indet.2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Calappidae2 sites
- Cidaroida2 sites
- Comatulida2 sites
- Decapoda2 sites
- Dhondtichlamys2 sites
- Diplodetus2 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Gauthieria2 sites
- Glomerula2 sites
- Graphularia2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Lacazella2 sites
- Neomicrorbis2 sites
- Ophiomusium2 sites
- Palaeohypotodus bronni2 sites
- Phymosomatoida2 sites
- Syncyclonema haeggi2 sites
- Teleostei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pyrgopolon, 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
7 references- Late Maastrichtian and Early Palaeocene index macrofossils in the Maastrichtian type area (SE Netherlands, NE Belgium)4
- The Little-known Maastrichtian Pyrgopolon from the Crimea3
- First record of sabellid and serpulid polychaetes from the Permian of Sicily1
- Late Turonian polychaete communities recorded in the hemipelagic sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Teplice Formation, Ohře and Dresden districts)1
- The Laluzia armini (gen et spec nov) ecosystem: understanding a deeper-water rudist lithosome from the Early Maastrichtian of Mexico1
- Winzig, aber sensationell! Meine kleinste Fosilfundstelle.1
- Die Fauna der Overwegischichten und der Blätterthone in der libyschen Wüste [The fauna of the Overwegi and Blätterthone Beds in the Libyan Desert]1
Each of the 12 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 Pyrgopolon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyrgopolon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSerpulidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Montfort 1808