Tagelus divisus

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Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 37 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 23 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–9.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.1–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Tagelus divisus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

37 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

15 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WNew Orleans Barrier Trend — 30.05°N, 89.96°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WMichoud — 30.05°N, 89.96°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.40°WBoca Chica — 10.62°N, 64.00°WCumana — 10.47°N, 64.15°W

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The named rock units Tagelus divisus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tagelus divisus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tagelus divisus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,187 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Tagelus divisus, 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

16 references

Each of the 37 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. 4 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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Specimen
Tagelus (Mesopleura) divisus · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:177617

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spengler 1794