Pachygyra
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MeandrininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Meandrininae
- Life habit
- colonial, clonalPBDB, for Faviina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Faviina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 120 million years on record.
The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
34 occurrences of Pachygyra 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- Late Jurassic6%
- Late Cretaceous24%
- Paleocene18%
- Eocene53%
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
8 formations
- Guinea Corn Formation4
- "Abu Tartur" Formation1
- Korond Formation1
- Auradu Limestone Formation1
- Trstelj Formation · Kras Group1
- Ocozocoautla Formation1
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The named rock units Pachygyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachygyra and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pachygyra and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
275 taxa- Actinacis cognata5 sites
- Goniopora5 sites
- Siderofungia5 sites
- Alveolina4 sites
- Astrocoenia4 sites
- Dasycladales4 sites
- Miliolida4 sites
- Parachaetetes4 sites
- Cladocora3 sites
- Montastraea3 sites
- Peyssonneliaceae3 sites
- Acanthogyra multiformis2 sites
- Acicularia2 sites
- Actinastrea ramosa2 sites
- Astreopora meneghiniana2 sites
- Astreopora tecta2 sites
- Astrocoenia lobatorotundata2 sites
- Astrocoenia nana2 sites
- Cladocora tenuis2 sites
- Dendracis2 sites
- Heliocoenia (Decaheliocoenia) variabilis2 sites
- Meandrina2 sites
- Siderastrea2 sites
- Siderofungia morloti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Pachygyra, 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
18 references- A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)10
- Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca Fossil-Lagerstatten: new evidence from the Ypresion of Monte Postale (NE Italy)4
- Palaeoecology of corals and rudists in mixed volcaniclastic carbonate small-scale rhythms (Upper Cretaceous, Jamaica)4
- Corals of the K/T-boundary: scleractinian corals of the suborders Astrocoeniina, Faviina, Rhipidogyrina and Amphiastraeina2
- Coral fauna across the Cretaceous– Paleogene boundary at Zagros and Sistan Suture zones and Yazd Block of Iran1
- Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätten: new evidence from the Ypresian of Monte Postale (NE Italy)1
- Corals from the Maastrichtian Ocozocoautla Formation (Chiapas, Mexico) – a closer look1
- The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?1
- Palaeoecology of solitary corals in soft-substrate habitats: the example of Cunnolites (upper Santonian, Eastern Alps)1
- Jurassic corals of east-central Iran1
- pers. comm.1
- Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece1
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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Pachygyra 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 Pachygyra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachygyra 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMeandrininae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848