Akania

Akania

Poyt448 Peter Woodard · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AkaniaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 10 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 10 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya56 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Akania on record. 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

10 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

3 formations

Huitrera — 42.50°S, 70.00°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WLa Huitrera — 42.55°S, 70.27°W

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

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Akania, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Akania

Credit
Poyt448 Peter Woodard
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Akania 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 itAkaniaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hook