Phycodes

Phykodes is a genus of moths in the family Brachodidae.

A picture published with the record for Phycodes. What it shows has not been checked.

Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham - in 1891 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 404 million years on record.

The record covers at least 525.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Cambrian — about 8 of 18 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 6 of 18 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 18 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences532–517 Mya — about 4 occurrences517–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–472 Mya — about 4 occurrences472–456 Mya — about 2 occurrences456–441 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences441–426 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences426–411 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–107 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences107–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences525.5 Mya121.4 Mya548 Mya92 Mya

18 occurrences of Phycodes on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

18 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

15 formations

Pedroche — 37.95°N, 4.77°WGrebes Nest Point — 47.64°N, 52.98°WTal — 30.45°N, 78.08°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EWulongqing — 24.93°N, 102.82°EOcieseki Sandstone — 50.90°N, 20.90°ERome — 36.13°N, 84.04°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EHilliste — 58.87°N, 22.97°EDominion — 47.66°N, 52.94°WOchre Cove — 47.66°N, 52.94°WKellys Island — 47.54°N, 53.01°WSaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EKhok Kruat — 16.60°N, 103.52°ENomtsas — 25.60°S, 16.97°E

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The named rock units Phycodes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phycodes and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Phycodes and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

198 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Phycodes, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1

Picture of Phycodes

Credit
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham - in 1891
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Richter 1850