Pachypoterion robustum

Pachypoterion robustum

Dr William D. Lang · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PachypoterionPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At most 78 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145 Mya64 Mya

4 occurrences of Pachypoterion robustum on record, most of them in the Early 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

4 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

1 formation

Upper Greensand — 51.21°N, 2.18°WUpper Greensand — 51.34°N, 1.76°WUpper Greensand — 51.08°N, 1.17°E

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

Pachypoterion robustum and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Pachypoterion robustum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pachypoterion robustum, 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pachypoterion robustum

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dr William D. Lang
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pachypoterion robustum was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itPachypoterion through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1883