Pachyseris rugosa

Pachyseris rugosa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachyserisPBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 17 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 11 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Pachyseris rugosa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

17 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

6 formations

Riukiu Limestone — 24.75°N, 125.33°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EHateruma — 24.04°N, 123.79°ENaha — 26.08°N, 127.68°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ETokelau — 17.29°S, 178.99°W

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The named rock units Pachyseris rugosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachyseris rugosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pachyseris rugosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pachyseris rugosa, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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 content1

Picture of Pachyseris rugosa

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Pachyseris rugosa 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 itPachyseris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)