Pachygyra princeps
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachygyraPBDB
- 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 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pachygyra princeps on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous25%
- Paleocene75%
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 Pachygyra princeps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pachygyra princeps and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pachygyra princeps and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- "Stylina" reussi1 site
- Acrosmilia conica1 site
- Actinastrea ramosa1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Astrocoenia blanfordi1 site
- Astrocoenia gibbosa1 site
- Astrocoenia nana1 site
- Cunnolites1 site
- Cunnolites cancellata1 site
- Cunnolites polymorphus1 site
- Cunnolites scutellum1 site
- Cunnolites tenuiradiata1 site
- Dictuophyllia1 site
- Euphyllia1 site
- Euphyllia caliculata1 site
- Goniopora1 site
- Goniopora elegans1 site
- Goniopora microscopica1 site
- Heterogyra murchisoni1 site
- Meandrina1 site
- Mesomorpha1 site
- Montlivaltia atlantica1 site
- Pavona bronni1 site
- Pironastrea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pachygyra princeps, 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- 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
- pers. comm.1
Each of the 4 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 Pachygyra princeps 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 princeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachygyra princeps 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 itPachygyra through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reuss 1854