Gryphus kickxii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GryphusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
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 37.71 Mya.
34 occurrences of Gryphus kickxii 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
34 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 Gryphus kickxii 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.
Gryphus kickxii and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gryphus kickxii and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Meznericsia hantkeni12 sites
- Terebratulina tenuistriata4 sites
- Argyrotheca sabandensis1 site
- Assilina1 site
- Asterocyclina alticostata1 site
- Discocyclina archiaci cf. archiaci1 site
- Discocyclina dispansa taurica1 site
- Discocyclina fortisi fortisi1 site
- Discocyclina pulchra cf. landesica1 site
- Harpactocarcinus punctulatus1 site
- Harpactoxanthopsis quadrilobata1 site
- Megathiris detruncata1 site
- Megerlia1 site
- Nemkovella evae evae1 site
- Nemkovella strophiolata1 site
- Nummulites1 site
- Orbitoclypeus multiplicatus gmundenensis n. ssp.1 site
- Orbitoclypeus schopeni crimensis1 site
- Orthothyris pectinoides1 site
- Palaeocarpilius1 site
- Ranina1 site
- Terebratulida1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Gryphus kickxii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Middle Eocene brachiopods from the Szoc Limestone Formation (Bakony Mountains, Hungary), with a description of a new genus32
- Middle Eocene (Bartonian) brachiopods from Turnu Roșu (Transylvanian Basin, Romania): oldest record of Megerlia and Kraussinidae1
- An Early Eocene fauna and flora from "Rote Kirche" in Gschliefgraben near Gmunden, Upper Austria1
Each of the 34 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 content0
No picture of Gryphus kickxii 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 Gryphus kickxii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gryphus kickxii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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What may have been alongside itGryphus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Galeotti 1837)