Stacheia congesta

Stacheia congesta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StacheiaPBDB
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 112 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences322–317 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–199 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences318.6 Mya205.7 Mya326 Mya199 Mya

3 occurrences of Stacheia congesta on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

Westbury — 51.22°N, 2.82°WJohns Valley — 34.17°N, 97.15°W

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The named rock units Stacheia congesta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Stacheia congesta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Stacheia congesta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Stacheia congesta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each 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. 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 Stacheia congesta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stacheia congesta 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.

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What may have been alongside itStacheia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brady 1876