Phormocyrtis

No picture of Phormocyrtis 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 Phormocyrtis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EucyrtidiidaePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 93 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 93 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 70 of 93 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 93 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 93 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 7 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 8 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 8 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–30 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61.66 Mya23.04 Mya73 Mya15 Mya

93 occurrences of Phormocyrtis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

93 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

2 formations

Lefkara — 35.08°N, 33.67°EMahurangi Limestone — 36.13°S, 174.17°EMahurangi Limestone — 35.25°S, 173.54°E

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The named rock units Phormocyrtis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 82 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phormocyrtis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phormocyrtis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 74 sites for Phormocyrtis, 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

12 references

Each of the 93 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 Phormocyrtis 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 Phormocyrtis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phormocyrtis 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 itEucyrtidiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1887