Fromea fragilis

No picture of Fromea fragilis was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Fromea fragilis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FromeaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Acritarcha

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya66 Mya84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

5 occurrences of Fromea fragilis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Jagüel — 38.84°S, 67.88°WBearpaw Shale — 49.77°N, 107.44°WSmoking Hills — 69.72°N, 129.00°WMason River — 69.72°N, 129.00°W

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

Fromea fragilis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Fromea fragilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

39 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Fromea fragilis, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Fromea fragilis was found. Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Fromea fragilis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Fromea fragilis 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 itFromea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stover and Evitt 1962