Algites

A picture published with the record for Algites. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
PhaeophyceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Phaeophyceae
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Phaeophyceae

Time the record covers

At least 336 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesOrdovician — about 2 of 15 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 15 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesPermian — about 5 of 15 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences495–481 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences481–466 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences466–452 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences452–438 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences438–423 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences423–409 Mya — about 1 occurrence294–280 Mya — about 2 occurrences280–265 Mya — about 2 occurrences265–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–165 Mya — about 2 occurrences165–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–136 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences136–121 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences121–107 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–64 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences419.62 Mya83.6 Mya495 Mya64 Mya

15 occurrences of Algites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

15 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

12 formations

Takche — 32.27°N, 77.41°EPhilippovian — 57.44°N, 57.01°EPhilippovian — 57.41°N, 57.06°EWutubulake — 46.82°N, 66.62°EMarl Slate — 54.60°N, 1.70°WBerge Suite — 63.80°N, 127.40°EChechuma Suite — 64.20°N, 126.40°ELower Beshui Suite — 44.70°N, 33.50°ESainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°EBlack Creek — 34.23°N, 79.72°WKamai — 57.35°N, 57.15°EShurtan — 57.10°N, 57.39°EUkureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°E

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

Algites and its relatives

Permian

Where Algites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

185 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Algites, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 Algites

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Algites was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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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What may have been alongside itPhaeophyceae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seward 1894