Theocotylissa ficus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Theocotyle (Theocotylissa)PBDB
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
44 occurrences of Theocotylissa ficus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
44 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Theocotylissa ficus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Theocotylissa ficus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Theocotylissa ficus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Spongatractus pachystylus35 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) papalis31 sites
- Calocycloma29 sites
- Dictyoprora mongolfieri22 sites
- Podocyrtis (Lampterium) sinuosa22 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) hirsuta22 sites
- Phormocyrtis striata21 sites
- Eusyringium20 sites
- Podocyrtis20 sites
- Rhopalocanium ornatum20 sites
- Lithochytris vespertilio19 sites
- Zealithapium19 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Pentalacorys) triacantha18 sites
- Lychnocanoma bellum17 sites
- Lychnocanoma16 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Pentalacorys) tensa16 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Thyrsocyrtis) rhizodon16 sites
- Lamptonium15 sites
- Lophocyrtis biaurita15 sites
- Periphaena15 sites
- Sethochytris14 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) diamesa13 sites
- Theocorys anaclasta13 sites
- Theocotyle12 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Theocotylissa ficus, 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
8 references- Site U133212
- Site U140310
- Site U13319
- Biostratigraphy of Late Paleocene- Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus6
- Site U13334
- Site U15091
- Site U15081
- Site U14071
Each of the 44 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
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No picture of Theocotylissa ficus 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 Theocotylissa ficus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Theocotylissa ficus 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 itTheocotyle (Theocotylissa) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ehrenberg 1873)